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are inclined to spend what little they make, the few persevere and Save. But I would specially except those in the employ of Northern settlers who say that colored labor is satisfactory,- that freedmen will work well and improve when fairly paid and properly treated: of which there is no doubt.
The general behaviour of freedmen is on all sides admitted to be good: stealing and drinking are their besetting sins.

I must say that about Eastville and Drummondstown I saw more white than colored loafers, the former always ready to chide the latter for laziness, and cannot refrain from pronouncing the whites over there as a class utterly unfit to shape the future of the freedmen. They are generally ignorant, conceited, selfish, and have no healthful aspirations.
Newspapers are scantily circulated, there is little apparent desire for education or information. Very little is said about the political situation.

The officer in charge Lieut. Sherwood is intelligent and capable, but has, I think, some quite mistaken views relative to freedmen and their interests; is apparently easily influenced and from his surroundings

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