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labor and their crops are not yet far enough advanced so that an intelligent opinion can be formed of their prospects for the remainder of the year. The crop which these men made last year has been long since expended, and they have now nothing in store for the future. It is however believed that with the facilities for fishing and with the early vegetables which are beginning to ripen, together with such smal [small] jobs of work as they are able to obtain that they will be able to support themselves comfortably until their new crop is growing.
The feeling existing between the whites and freedmen is generally cordial, and in most instances is growing more so.
Every effort is being made to instruct the Freedmen in their rights and duties confered [conferred] by the recent Acts of Congress.
I am General
With great respect
Your Off. Servant
F. A. Morsy
Agent.