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From the reports made to me by my officers from their various posts, I am satisfied that the [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] state has made quite an advance during the last quarter.  The minds of the Freedmen have been disabused with reference to many vague ideas they possessed respecting the division of lands among them, and the coming of a general jubilee.  Officers, traveling from plantation to plantation, have done much good by remedying these false ideas.
The notion of an insurrection among them is now simply absurd.  People who have patiently borne the burdens of slavery are not likely to rise up and destroy their white neighbors now that they are [[strikethrough]] just [[/strikethrough]] beginning to taste the sweets of liberty.  No reports reach me of any organization among them that would lead me to think them possessed with any such notions: on the contrary, on all sides, it is reported that they are quickly working at their old homes, for their former masters, when they were willing to pay them as much as they could get elsewhere, and if they were not, the separation has been peacable and without disastrous consequences to either party.