Under these circumstances the blacks naturally turned for protection

to those who had been the means of their liberation, and it would

have been little less than inhuman to deny them sympathy. Their

freedom had been given them, and it was the plain duty of those in

authority to make it secure, and screen them from the bitter

political resentment that beset them, and to see that they had a fair

chance in the battle of life. Therefore, when outrages and murders

grew frequent, and the aid of the military power was an absolute