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are tending.  I am afraid that the talk of the people who visit Washington from the South is being taken as the sentiment of the masses, and is directing legislation and policy.
   It is idle to talk of these people working out this negro problem.  People who will not admit that it is best, or even right, to educate the Freedmen,  are not proper persons to be intrusted with the administration of justice to them.  I have no hesitation in saying, that, if the question of educating the colored people were today submitted to the people of this State, they would vote against it bodily.  Nine tenths of those who are themselves educated, and are supposed to have higher and nobler feelings, would vote against it.  I have been called on, by persons of this class, and asked to suppress religious meetings, because the Freedmen in their own simple way make more noise than is agreeable to their refined ears.  When I remonstrate with them, and talk of