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the transition period. Their temperance see by numbers over 400 members.
In accordance with the custom of the country drinking habits are very common among the colored people, and in the aggregate, [[conscience]] means enough to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and educate the ignorant. At the anniversary of the "Colored Young Mens Christian Association" in this city, the supper table, in addition to its rich and costly array of meats, fruits and confectionaries, was adorned with magnificent punch bowls, such as are the pride of ancient "first families", filled with wines and liquors. But these things too are passing away, and schools and savings banks will hasten their exit.
Public School System. We have none, except in the form of a germ, in the new constitution. There is not a dollar of public school money in the state.  Everything is to be created, de novo, even to faith in the free school system, as embodied in the fundamental law. This is not true, of course, of the numerical majority, including the blacks, but it is true of the great majority of the wealthy educated and influential citizens, the controlling power both in society and in the