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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.