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No trouble has recurred of importance between him and the Civil authorities. The citizens are bitterly opposed to any system of education for the Freedmen, and will render him no assistance in the work. All are bitterly opposed to Freedmen's Bureau and do all in their power against it.

From Canton I proceeded to Grenada and spent several days in the town and adjoining County, Visited several plantations and made inquiries concerning condition and contentment of the Freedmen. I found many of them well paid and well fed up to the present time. A great many of them have an interest in the crops non gathering and anxiously await their pay. They have some hesitancy in engaging for another year. They all want to rent land and have houses of their own, and will locate in most any place if they can buy for the purpose of building and cultivating. They have fears of separation and want to be together, and think if they can get some place to build on the will have a home and can support their families better in that way than to move their families wherever they employ. The people manifest no disposition