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"Report the disposition and feeling of the white people towards the freed people as expressed by words and actions."
They are not honest. Openly they make all manner of protestations of Kindly feeling - very anxious to observe all the orders eminating from the Bureau &c. I regret to say with very few exceptions, the feeling towards the freedmen is a bitter one.- but for the consequences it would evince itself

EDUCATION.
"Report the feeling upon the subject of education; what steps have been taken to promote the same; what efforts the freed people are making in that direction and in what manner they may be assisted, etc., etc."
The white people as a general thing, are opposed to the education of the freedmen, and are doing (secretly) all in their power to counteract my efforts.- The freedmen themselves show no special desire to send their children to school. Their heart is not in the matter- I account for this in three ways.- First- What is told them secretly of the non-importance- Second- The failure of the entire crop has disheartened them.- Third- The negro Preachers of which I have in this District nine or ten, not one of whom can read or write.- They are fearful if the people learn to read and write they will find out what nonsense has been preached to them for religion.- I am informed that they (the Preachers) have advised their congregations not to spend their money for school, but to give it to the Church.-
 
A donation of a lot (one acre) was made by Mr James Wrigley to the Bureau for Freedmens school. 

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