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Some two hundred colored and perhaps fifty whites. No complaints were made to me with reference to labor or contracts: but few as 
to acts of injustice, and these were comparatively trifling. The restitution in this vicinity is apparently about the same as in other sections of the country. The colored people are anxious to know their duties and privileges under the recent law of Congress; and the opportunity was embraced of speaking to them upon matters of general interest. The same concern in political matters, is manifested upon the part of the colored people throughout the country.
The school at this place continues in a prosperous condition. The prejudices with reference to the education of the colored people are gradually wearing away; still little or nothing is being done by the whites for their improvement  Time can only bring into operation that broad philanthropy and active christian sympathy, the absence of which is now so much to be explored.
The condition of those colored destitutes who have been received at the Poor House is in no

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