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=acts for the ensuing year - they evidently have been promised land, to be given them within a few months, they are also evidently bound to secrecy and it is impossible to find out from them who they get these promises or orders (as they call them) from -
The whites expected something of this kind and do nothing but come and ask to have their hands instructed that they must live up to their contracts for this year -
No disturbance occured in the entire county during Election day - The freedmen are delighted at the result - and I hope and think that after the excitement and joy of the victory is over they will soon return to their usual quiet-
Regarding temperance and the formation of Societies, it is almost impossible [crossed out letter] to get any to go into it. I have not seen three drunken colored men since I came into the county, though nearly all drink, and it is almost impossible to convince these moderate drinkers

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