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Office Assistant Superintendent Bureau
OF FREEDMEN, REFUGEES AND ABANDONED LANDS, 
Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. 15," 1865.

Colonel C. Cadle. Jr.
A.A. General 

Colonel:-
I have the honor herewith to transmit my "Weekly" - Report."

All is very quiet and orderly. The Freedmen in this District, although uneasy and restless at first, are becoming peaceable and industrious. They appear to have settled down with the conviction that they must -  and a desire to - earn a livelihood for themselves and families. Their minds an gradually, but surely and definitely, beginning to comprehend and understand their true situation; and they begin to realize what freedom means, and what is expected from them as Freedmen. The mind of the poor negro has been so long purposely clouded and enveloped with a thick veil of ignorance; they have been so taught to look upon themselves as mere [[beasts?]], that it will

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