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The officers of the Probate court have been unable to make such provision for the taking care of the poor and helpless as in usual in thoroughly organized counties.

There are no doubt some cases of destitution in every county in this Sub District, but I have had but few appeals for relief from any except Lee County.

4th  Labor system. The Freedmen (with a few exceptions about the towns) are represented to be working well, both as employees and as tenants (making crops on their own accounts.)

5th  Otrages &c.

There is beyond a doubt in my mind a growing bitterness of feeling among a class of whites towards the blacks, confined principally to disappointed politicians and the reckless men of the country who have been brought up in idleness and who have lost their fortunes by the war and the emancipation of their slaves.
 
Within the last few days I have had several complaints of outrages committed upon Freedpeople, by persons in disguise, pretending to be "spirits risen from the dead" In some cases the houses of Freedmen have been stormed,  in others the Freedmen have been taken out and flogged with hide whips or "cow hides"

There is considerable excitement in this community among the Freedmen and white unionists, growing

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