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reason of the great excess of whites, was that but few freedmen made application for assistance, and that the greater amount of destitution is among the whites. The reasons assigned for the application for relief in most cases, is from loss of make members of families during the war. One of the caused, I apprehend to be, for the excess of whites, in that the colored people have always been educated to work, while the whites have not, and therefore the colored people are better prepared for the present condition of affairs than the whites.

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[left margin] Schools. their number. condition [/left margin]
The members of schools in this district so far as I can learn is not less than thirty of which only eight make reports to this office.  Most of those conducted by northern teachers have closed for the summer. I find the freedmen everywhere fully alive to the importance of education and while their interest in this matter is steadily increasing the whites from motives of policy exhibit a willingness to encourage them in their efforts and I am called upon almost daily by persons soliciting the assistance and influence of the Bureau towards establishing schools upon their plantations. What now is most needed, is teachers.
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[left margin] Maritial relations of the Freemen [/left margin]
There is perhaps none or very slight improvement in the maritial relations of the freedmen, since my last report; slavery produced an evil which is almost