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private charities. The action of the Government and the results of the War, have thrown these people upon the care of the Government, and until work can be found for them, they must protect and provide for them. The cause of Education has advanced most rapidly among the Freedmen. The School Teacher is abroad and hundreds of good men and women have been sent out by the charitable and religious societies of the North to teach them. Their sympathies are almost exclusively directed to the colored; but few schools, as yet, have been established for the white Refugees, and apparently but little interest existed in their behalf.

This Commission, in order to aid Government and lighten the burdens imposed on our Military Commanders, especially in this Military district, have rendered some assistance to the white Refugees. You will find report marked "G" Nov'er 1st 1864, on White Refugees of the South. This class of people we find, are in many respects inferior to the recently emancipated Negro; they have all the false pride and arrogance, engendered by the institutions of the South, without having been taught to labor, considering that it is degrading to work because "niggers work."