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sort of way. The improvident habits of slavery have by no means left them all. Many of them, more especially the young yellow girls are exactly as virtuous as the White man desires.
The singular feature is that the White Prostitutes here in considerable numbers cohabit almost entirely with black men. Marriages are here solomnized with due regard to form. But candor compells me to say that here as else where the race is far from virtuous.
Vigorous pushing of education is the only thing that will at all remedy this evil in the rising generation. The Freedmen should in all possible cases be made to pay more than they do for their education in order to value it;
I would recommend 50 cts a month per pupil. Moreover the issue of Clothing except to destitute old women and to them sparingly, should be stopped. Old men come in and tell a pitiful story. get a dress coat and some other clothing. The next sunday you may see their lazy grown up sons wearing it, intense objects of self admiration.

2nd The Courts will give the ignorant