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with or direct civil authorities in certain cases. But the interests of freedmen, like those of citizens anywhere, where there is no danger of outbreak, cannot but suffer from the presence of soldiers; (unless their morality is remarkable). There being no prospect whatever of violation of the peace in the counties of York and James City, beyond the power of the local authorities to manage, I assured give it as my conviction, that, so far as freedmen are concerned, it is quite unnecessary to garrison Yorktown as Williamsburg and that such military occupation is an injury to them; for which the government is responsible.  Troops are no more needed then that in the Counties of Gloucester, Matthews, New Kent, or Charles City.

The poor whites are as badly off as freedmen: they labor only as necessity compels them, and are most contented when squatting in a canoe with a fish line bod and sinker. Their dwellings are dilapidated and their premises show no signs of thrift. They are to be pitied and ought to be helped. Schools should be established among them, and thus the rising generation be redeemed from the