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comprehension of their duty &c., but at the same time do not seem to realize that lost time endangers the crops and recoils more or less upon their own heads.
In this connection I desire to remark that in my opinion the operations of secret political organizations, so far as the freedmen are concerned, managed as these organizations have been in my Division, have been and are seriously detrimental to the interests generally of the race. Nothing within the scope of my observation has done more to engender bad feeling between the classes and if a conflict should occur, I should unhesitatingly attribute it to the harmful influences brought to bear upon the race through the instrumentality of demagogues who have become identified with the associations alluded to and have

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