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4th feet. Be honest, faithful, polite and respectful to all; work hard, and save your earnings." I then gave them (the Freedmen) some instructions of the rights conferred upon them by the recent Acts of Congress, the one "to provide for a more efficient government of the rebel states", and the act supplementing thereto. I advised them to exercise those rights with great care, and above all things to avoid intoxicating liquors upon election days, and to avoid, also, any men who might try to buy their votes with a drink of whiskey, for such are not to be trusted. I told them that these rights are too sacred to be trifled with. Said that I was a Yankee from New England, and proud of the appellation, which remark was occasioned by Mr. Malleny's slur thereto. This was the substance of my remarks, which were made without any previous contemplation, or premeditation. I did not