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to inform you that they are willing and anxious to organize themselves into societies for the advancement of this great cause. I am of the opinion that intemperance does not exist to the same extent among the freedmen as among the white population.
Capt Geo E Judd V.R.C. Agent
for the counties of Giles. Lawrence Wayne and Lincoln, Tenn reports.
I have endeavored to organize Temperance societies among the colored people and it is up hill business I can assure you. dont think any thing can be done until after the election is over.
I have traveled over the entire counties of which I am Agent during this month and find as a general thing the prospects of all the people are very flattering. There is very little complaint among either the whites or blacks. The whites are bitterly opposed to the course the negroes are taking in politics, and threaten to turn them off if they vote the radical