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Cases of intemperance among the Freedpeople are very rare. Every opportunity has been improved to instruct them in regard to temperance and sobriety, and to induce them to organize temperance societies, but owing to the smallness of their number, the buisy season, and the time requiring their attention to political matters, which they deem of more importance, but little progress has yet been made in organizing their Societies.

Political Clubs called Union Leagues have been formed in nearly all the Counties. Through the influence of these Clubs the majority of the Freedmen have been reached and instructed in their rights and the issues in the decision of which they will have a voice. They have learned not to fear to meet and interchange their views, and assert what they believe on their rights. They feel as long as they behave peaceably they have the protection of the Government. So far as I am aware they have always conducted themselves quietly and will in their meetings, nor do they ever express any hatred or vindictiveness towards the Southern people. The universal desire is that there shall be no strife and ill will between the two classes.

They feel their want of education in deciding

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