the country parishes; but about this time I discovered that many

members of the police force in New Orleans were covertly intimidating

the freedmen there, and preventing their appearance at the

registration offices, using milder methods than had obtained in the

country, it is true, but none the less effective.

Early in 1866 the Legislature had passed an act which created for the

police of New Orleans a residence qualification, the object of which

was to discharge and exclude from the force ex-Union soldiers. This