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when the numbers would be sufficient to support a school; it is much needed where the members will justify; the morrall effect I think would be great. I have picked out a location for one school, which will be started as soon as I can procure a teacher. Several may be started after crops are layed by. 

The Freedmen, I find to be industriously at work, giving pretty general satisfaction throughout the Dist., and evincing a quiet and submissive disposition. A majority are working without any writen contract; and but few are working for themselves. The population is considered by the largest planters to be much less than at the begining of the war; I think, however, that this is owing to the fact that the small farmer controles a greater portion of the labor, than he did then. In the northern and central portion of Tyler, Co., where the farming interest is greatest, the population is largest. The northern portion of the Co., is generally cut up in small farms, and the freedman pretty equally divided throughout the country. On every farm may be seen a family or two of blacks, but no farm or neighborhood seems to be over crowded. In Hardin Co., the population is but feebly represented, and very scattering 

I find the freedman, of this Dist, almost totally uneducated; in this case his capacity for self government, seems very weak. (In a jury room, eleven might be induced to render a wrong verdict by the influence of one man - if so many of that class could be found, having the "property qualification", - and at the pools he might be found  voting with the people) But where I find one in the least degree educated, he invariably appears to have considerable judgment, and independence. In and about