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that a certain prejudice and bitterness against them exists in the minds of some persons in the county, but this spirit, I believe, is becoming weaker every day.
For a more full understanding of my idea as to the probability of the Freedmen getting justice in Rockridge county I have the honor to refer you to my Report for December 1866.

The Freedmens schools here in Lexington are flourishing, and no attempts have been made by the students or any other persons, to interfere with their quiet and beneficent operations. In this connection I must remark that I would consider the addition of another female teacher, whose duty would be to teach the girls to sew, a most desirable acquisition to the present corps. No such instruction can now be given and many of the girls are totally unfit to mend their own clothes. Not being able to sew a stitch. Great as are the advantages of learning to read and write I believe learning to sew, to knit, and to do general lace work well and tidily, quite as beneficial if not more so, and were it possible, I would advocate introducing into our Freedmens schools a system of teaching cooking and other useful and necessary arts as a large proportion of the Freedgirls have been field hands and are totally unprepared to  become the wives and mothers which we wish them to be.

I neglected to communicate to you in my last Report the fact that the Presbyterian church in Lexington has a large colored  Sunday school which was founded by Stonewall Jackson previous to the opening of the late war.