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treatment by a great majority of the white people.

The feeling of the white people in regard to the education of the freedpeople, is very indifferent (: to use a very moderate term:) so much so, that I have not been able to rent a house or a room, for the purpose of establishing a school for colored children. I think, the greater part of the white population here would prefer to see their houses unoccupied, than to rent them out, at a good price, for such an odious purpose.


The freedpeople in, and around the town, wish to have a shcool; but they are either unable or unwilling, to collect the necessary funds to buy or to build a school house. The white people do not give them a very good example in regard to school matters - even they have, at the town of Clinton, the County seat, no school house. They seem to be satisfied to teach their children to hunt cows etc. Matters are not better, rather worse, in other sections of my district, the country being to thinly settled. Here I must except some entirely german settlements, where they  have good schools.

During the past month I have been engaged in settling the accounts between employers and employees, when there were written contracts, I have settled strictly to