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have any such a school within their respective limits. 

The condition of the Freedpeople in those two counties and the relations existing between them and their White neighbors - speaking in a general sense - I believe to be good, though my being at so remote a distance no doubt operates prejudicially to the interests of the colored in some cases. It is forty miles from Lexington to wither the Warm Springs or Covington and nearly seventy miles to certain parts of both Counties, and this over mountains and rivers, and by very bad roads. Formerly I had supposed I could spend a portion of my time in those, but now find this to be impossible on account of the greater importance and more perilous state of Affairs in Lexington which necessitates my remaining here unless it be for a hurried visit. 

In regard to the morals of the colored people so far as intoxication is concerned I can say that their sobriety has surprised me after seeing the intemperance that prevailed among them in Eastern Virginia while I was there. I have been here over eight months and in that time I have seen but one colored person drunk, and that was an old woman to whom her employer gave the whisky at a sort of jubilee.

I have partially organized a Temperance Society in Rockbridge, in accordance with Genl Howards Circular of May 15th 1867, and have obtained the signatures of sixty four to the pledge of abstinence. In a short time I expect to have it fully organized by the election