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the act, was that she was singing _ "Uncle Sam is rich enough to send us all to school". I will have the case before me tomorrow.

When there is a better disposition on the part of the citizens and their sons and the cadets and students I will have to send for books.  It seems imforsiable [[unforeseeable]] for these people to understand that the laws of the United States are supreme here, they seem to think nothing should occur or be said that does not accord with their ideas of right and wrong.
And that an officer of the Gov'mt is a thing only to be tolerated.

There are some distitute [[destitute]] people who have been made free since the close of the rebellion who now reside at a place known as the fairground some little aid has been given them by the overseer of the poor as this place who is a loyal man.  But now the parties who claim to own the fair ground propose to sell it and the buildings on it some of which was erected and used by the Rebel Government during the rebellion.  But I will see that none of the colored people are ejected or any of the buildings removed until they get orders to do so from competent authority.

There is one blind woman here who should be sent to an asylum of some kind.  There does not seem to be any disposition as the part of the Whites to help the aged and infirm freedmen

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