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in regard to the marriage relation among the freedmen and as to the legitimacy or illegitimacy of children born in a state of servitude.
It is the hopes that the legislature soon to meet will give proper attention to this subject.

There is no change to report in the condition of the poor. While the country is in its present impoverished condition there will, of course, be much suffering which the Commissioners of the Poor cannot relieve. 

Feeling of the People. 
The influence of party feeling is stronger now than it has been at any time heretofore. Both political parties are organizing clubs and in some portions of the District a majority of the colored people voted the Democratic ticket.  The superior intelligence of the whites, their constant intercourse with the freedmen, the covert threats or promises of reward and assistance which have been so frequently made, have not been without their effect upon the freedmen and in neighborhoods remote from railroads or large villages the freedmen are almost entirely under the influence of the whites, who are, of course, opposed to Reconstruction.

Many political clubs have passed resolutions binding their members not to employ, after their present contracts expire, freedmen who have voted the Republican ticket provided those who voted the Democratic ticket can