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of those laws, which appertain especially to their legal rights and obligations as well as to their advancement in intelligence which convinces me that they are not only more solicitous as to voting intelligently but that it will be more difficult to control their vote than it is to handle the votes of the white man.- I am convinced that the freedmen's community is no desirable field of operation for the political demagogue.- He will find much of his labor to be in vain, if he undertakes the old political dodges to secure votes.

While the freedmen are very naturally becoming interested in public affairs instead of attaining information from public speakers or rather candidates for office they are viewing for their own use all kinds of public documents and in small squads...are advising themselves thorough some of the more intelligent colored people who read