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children with a view to their future advancement. I must say that I found the colored people alive with interest and desirous of doing everything possible to meet the responsibilities so suddenly placed upon them. At the same time they look to the Freedmen's Bureau for all needful support, believing that by the efforts of its agents alone they can receive proper support in their efforts. This feeling is caused by the lasting and deep prejudice existing in the minds of a great number of White citizens who are forever crying down the negro, standing adverse to all plans of amelioration, and in their hearts cursing the Freedmen's Bureau.

Their name are legion. The freedmen will naturally enough turn from such persons, and look to those who are styled their friends and will apply to the Officers of the Bureau for protection, believing that justice alone will come from that source and no other. This is not without cause, as I shall explain hereafter.

I found the office of Major George D Reynolds in very good condition. His books were in excellent order as far as posted. Being new, and transfering matter