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This increase I attribute to disputes which arise at the close of the year in the division of crops between employers and their hands. These disputes in many cases ending in blows. In every community there is a large class who will defraud whenever they have the opportunity; but it appears to me that this class is larger than the average should be; and that the percent of those who are disposed to take every advantage they can of the ignorance of the freedmen, is much too large for a healthy moral state of society. I further regret to be obliged to report that this disposition is sustained more than it should be by public sentiment, and instead of being frowned down by the community is winked at and by that means augmented. The withdrawal of the Bureau will take place at the worst time of the year possible, as it is the time of settlement between the farmers and freedmen, and in the interval which will elapse between the withdrawal of the Bureau, and the adoption and practical inauguration  of a new state government, I can foresee nothing but anarchy and injustice to the freedmen. 

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