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"Report the disposition and feeling of the white people towards the freed people as expressed by words and actions."

Decidedly improving

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, &c., &c.,"

No steps have been taken to promote  the education of the Freedmen. The Freedmen themselves are too few and too scattered in this District to do anything for themselves, and the whites in this County, believing from experience that ignorance is bliss will do nothing.