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Tobacco is now generally used.  It reaches the class above the drinkers, and, in the same way as liquor, reduces the freedman's savings to zero.

I think the colored people are are gradually returning to their former masters; in one such case there is the pleasantest mutual feeling and the prospect of permanent settlement; but many are still shifting from place to place and with difficulty manage to live. These nomads are given to asking where they have not sown, and discourage farmers by their depradations. No colored man will tell of another of whose guilt he may know, and thus it is nearly impossible to detect thieves.

Full and complete justice to freedmen in cases in which they are interested against whites is not uniformly to be expected; seldom from juries; none frequently from magistrates.

But there is hardly any litigation in this sub-dist. in which freedmen are concerned. The almost entire cessation of it is hardly normal - it looks as if something were wrong.  I believe the freedmen are very frequently wronged, but, owing to their ignorance