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also is fast disappearing. Except in the Whiskey manufacturing district in Augusta & Highland Counties, but very little intemperance is seen, since the efforts to organize temperance societies have failed, but the failure was more the result of want of cooperation on the part of ministers and members of churches than from all other causes combined.

Immorality and bastardy are still the bane of society, although of less frequent occurrence than formerly. The offices of the Bureau are alone in their efforts to suppress this evil. Some long custom the civil authorities are totally indifferent if not blind to a curse which but for the Bureau would be as general as in the Calvinist days of the most ardent stock raising slave dealer - Until more humane and just men - men who regard the freedpeople as a little better than brutes can be placed in civil positions where justice will be impartially administered this evil will not be expunged - As a class the Freedpeople are not given to the commission of crime - except one man for horse stealing in Clarke County, no serious charges have been made against the colored people - Some cases of pettit larceny by half grown men and rarely if even by heads of families, sometimes