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6.
"Report the disposition and feeling of the white people towards the freed people as expressed by words and actions." There is no perceptible change in this. An unquestionable condition of direct antagonism exists between the majority of the white people and the freedmen. And this is apparently embittered by political complications, and the influence upon the blacks of secret political organizations, and the dread thereof on the part of the whites.

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 perceptible improvement in the feeling of the white people, in regard to the education of freedpersons. No steps have yet been taken by the authorities to promote or assist the same. The better class of freedpeople are alive to the necessity of educating their race and do what they can to encourage and promote the cause, but owing to the scarcity of money, and the poverty existing amongst the great majority of the freedmen, they are unable to pay the cost of tuition for their children. My report for the month of February 1867 showed over 700 enrolled scholars, with nearly 500 in average daily attendance. There are now five schools in operation in the City, with seven teachers, and the total number of pupils enrolled is only about 200 with an average attendance of about 130. Two of these schools under lady Teachers sent out by the Christian Association have only

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