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The universal interest felt by them in the cause of education—their anxiety for the speedy organization and establishment of churches and schools—and in fact for all the means of intellectual and religous improvement, are conclusive evidences that they appreciate and comprehend their new duties and responsibilities, and that in due time the will realize all the just expectations of their friends and fulfill the magnificent destiny which Providence through the instrumentality of the American people has in store for them. - The impression which seems to prevail among a faction of the Southern people that the freedmen are not capable of exercising intelligently and judiciously the elective franchise that employ as well control the notes of those employed by their &c has no foundation in fact—I have arrived at this conclusion after personally examining into the question and I am convinced that it is far more difficult to handle their notes than it is a majority of the whites -

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