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freedmen who cannot discover the great principles which lie back of immediate result and effects; and, they see in the operation of Civil law a harsh distinction of color, a persecution of their own race, that may, & in most cases, is not, an intended wrong, but the natural result of the application of a [[strikethrough]] beneficial [[/strikethrough]] law, beneficent in itself, to a portion of society not far enough advanced in prosperity to receive the good intended by it, but only the harm that is the dark side, the possible alternative, to every human blessing.

I am General
Much Great Respect
Your Obt Sevt 
S C Armstrong
Supt 5 Dist Va

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S C Armstrong ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-04-26 15:49:29