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the Peace in that part of the country will do anything for a colored man.

W.H. Goodwin, Supt for Wilson, Smith & DeKalb Cos. reports that he observes a much more favorable feeling on the part of the citizens in his Sub District toward the freedmen especially in regard to their education and elevation in society particularly so in this (Wilson) county where a freemen's school has been established. Your Supt would most respectfully report that a large number of children, who have been abandoned by one or the other and left to roam over the county without the means of support, some being too young for their services to be adequate to their maintenance hence many are necessarily suffering for the necessaries of life, and your Supt finds it very difficult to dispose of these destitute children to guardians or otherwise by law.
Jus L. Fowler, Supt Wayne Co reports Nov 30
Feeling toward freedmen by citizens reasonably kind at this time.
Wm Lowry Supt Warren Co thus reports