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be hard to get a jury that would do a colored man justice: the majority of jury-men are illiterate and ignorant.

In Warwick Co. there are no Freedmen's schools. At the Folly Farm on Mulberry Island and at Denby Church, schools are much needed. The Freedmen hope to get a teacher from the North provided the Bureau will render assistance in building school houses: efforts are now being made to establish schools at both these points. 

Capt. Smith one of the more intelligent and enterprising men in Warwick Co. and one of the largest landowners says the freedmen have, within the past year, improved greatly: there is, he says, less stealing, better general behaviour, and increased good feeling between classes: the average prosperity is unusually high: labor is satisfactory, what trouble there is arises from bad management.

Mr C.P. Goodyear a northern farmer says "the upshot of the whole question of negro labor is this "pay them well and they work well".

There appears to be general satisfaction between

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