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ment and support. It will be absolutely necessary to have room enough and help enough to take care of them all, for Nature can then no longer warm and feed them. 
I beg permission, General, to express my earnest conviction, that the complete transfer of the affairs of Freedmen to the control of the State, as boastingly predicted by the Secessionists, will be a measure fraught with incalculable evil. During these three months, since undertaking my present work, opportunity has been given to notice the temper of former slaveholders, in all classes of society. Thousands have been under my observation, in circumstances favorable for correct judgment. The natural expression of feeling is a bitter hatred and scorn, beyond language to describe, towards the whole black race. The general practice is to take every possible advantage of their ignorance and need. Several, [[strikethrough]] of the most [[/strikethrough]] candid, as well as most able men, in the community have even urged me to press the matter upon all who can control the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] issue. They state their assured conviction, although former slaveholders themselves, that the average white population, in their present state