among "the freedmen of the Southern State**, that the lands of their former owners will, at ? least, in pari, ls« divided anions; them, ha* J come from the agents of this Bureau. This ■ belief is seriously interfering with the willing- t ne.s* of tho freedmen to make contracts for the " coining year. In some form, the Freedmeii's c Bureau tens absolute aeeeanlty until civil law Is established :uid MifPrceUi 'securing to the