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eventually the respect of even their enemies.

The relations existing between themselves and the white race up to the middle of May was hopeful. Numerous outrages since that time have been committed against colored people, which the race has dealt with so leniently as would seem to invite future aggressions. A well grounded appeal taken before the Military Commissioner at Winchester has been productive of no good, and the freed people (with the exception of the mockery of a trial) are defenceless against the assaults of white persons.

Education the freedman's anchor of hope is embraced with fervency, and its power will shortly have a telling effect.

By it they are gaining that confidence in themselves, which will elevate them above the dependence upon the white man, which slavery taught them was indispensable to their very existence. Freedmen's schools now dot the land in this Sub Dist. like village churches, and are at least as well attended.

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