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magistrates in dealing with difficulties of the kind.
The Freedmen are put off - or it is so managed that they seldom return as directed when I give them a note to a magistrate, There being so few complaints of ill treatment speaks well for the good behavior of the Negro, in a community, where the slightest impudence has always been just cause for knocking a Nigger down.

I have the honor to be General
Very Respectfully Your ob. Svt.
Louis W. Stevenson
2d Lt. VRC Asst Supt.

Thro Capt. R.S. Lacey
Capt & Supt.