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murdering, & committing other, as bad if not still worse crimes; all superinduced by the "Yankees" who, in liberating them, but gave them the privilege to starve, & go naked. 
The main difficulty in regard to the schools, will be to obtain board for the Teacher; for I would by all means recommend that one from abroad be sent here.  In speaking of this matter with "John J. Hales" Esqr.; a former member of the Bureau, or Friedmen's Court here, and one of the principal men in this place who I have been told "leads the County", and whose advocacy of any project, it is said, is requisite to its success; he remarked that he had told Lt. Warden, my predecessor, before, when he first mentioned the matter to him, he thought it was best this school question should be over until some of the citizens themselves should make a move in the matter, which they would probably do one of these days, but were as yet unprepared for; and he thought that officer "showed a great deal of judgment in managing it in that way"; & he said he also told him that "if any school were ever opened, it would have to be taught by some one of the place; that it would never do in the world to send a teacher from the North; for if, in the first place, a male should come here, he would get no one to board him,& no one would countenance him, while he, Hale, would not support him; and in the second place, if a white female Teacher should come instead it would make matters still worse, for all the young men would take it for granted she a whore, & would insult her on every possible occasion." Of course I resented such language

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Yes, I really think it looks like Friedmen's Court. And in the context of the text it makes sense as a swipe at the Freedmen's Bureau.