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morally. socially, and I may add politically.  Politically the cold. people are not yet quite disenthralled but lately having been raised to the [[?]] position of American citizens they have not fully directed themselves of the fears and superstitions of their recent degraded conditions.

As regards the vice of intemperance among the cold. people and the organization of temperance societies among them, I have the honor to report that in the section intemperance among them is rare, and that since my charge or this Agency, I have not seen a single case of intoxication among the colored people. I have moved in this matter of organizing a Lincoln total abstinence society, but so far owing to the cold. people being busily engaged in harvesting the wheat crop, have not met with the success I anticipated. I contemplate calling at an early day a convention of all the leading cold. persons of the Co. for the purpose of inaugerating the grand movement, and no doubt exists in my mind