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13 & 14 - It is to be lamented that among the freedmen, parents seem totally blind to the importance of a proper government and discipline of their families- They will neither govern their families properly nor suffer their employers or former masters to do so. "Young people" (I mean children) white or black are not "naturally" disposed, I think, to be industrious,- there must be compulsion, from some source, to make them so. Yet many boys of larger size are now useful laborers on the farms.- 

15.16. - I hear universal complaints throughout the county of the thefts and robberies committed by the freedmen. Larcenies and burglaries are of very frequent occurrence; in some instances, low white men aid and abet them in their crimes, but they are for the most part confined to the freedmen and, I believe, to that class of freedmen who live idly and collect about the towns and villages, and cannot be compelled to seek an honest subsistence by going into steady employment on the farms. -I am satisfied that this is the "monster evil" so far as the freedmen are concerned; in all other respects the two races seem to be getting along together very well, it seems to me, in this county at least.- 

17.18.19. There are many of them, I doubt not, subsist by theft mainly; some are industrious and orderly. As to their personal comforts, I know not whether they live as well or better than those who are hired out.- 

20.21. Some persons assert that as many as half the colored population of this county have left it since 1 April 1865; I do not estimate the proportion at as many as one fourth- I do not now observe much disposition on their part to emigrate; numbers who went off at first have returned- I think they have pretty strong 

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