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that they will never again be reduced to slavery, and it is predicated that this belief becoming general great good will result therefrom these apprehensions being removed, they will cease to so great an an extent to allow themselves to become political property as it were, and will act from impulses of their own origination, and let their political anxieties become secondary to their social aggrandizement. There has never been to the freedmen such opportunities presented for securing homes for themselves as at present in this district. Lands are remarkably cheap, and an abundance offered for sale. A great abundance of crops having been raised their necessities of life are less pressing than they have been since their emancipation. Labor is in constant demand, good wages can be had and pay secured, and homes are in reach of any who may apply themselves properly to secure them. 

H.W. Barr. Agent for the counties of Cheatham and Robertson Tenn reports Aug 31 as follows. The condition of the