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have been no jury cases tried for freedmen. On the whole I notice a decided improvement in the feeling of southern white people towards freedmen upon which existed here one year ago. It seems as if the hatred which was often manifested by violent acts and otherwise when I first came here had been transferred from "Yankees" "Abolitionists" and "niggers" in general, and concentrated in intensified degree upon "Radicals", these unfortunate beings embodying in the popular imagination all the diabolical characteristics of the old time objects of public hatred and private malice. I think so far as the freedmen are concerned if a few schools could be established here and kept up a short time by the Bureau, to educate the white people into toleration of them, there would be no need for an agent of the Bureau to be wholly occupied with the county alone.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
Marcus S. Hopkins
Brevet Major & A. Supt.