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for the present - while the time of the col'd people is so much taken up with their Leagues & Politics; it is impossible to keep up the interest in the temperance cause. I have little or no drunkeness to report among them.

Great uneasiness is manifested in the community - in consequence of reported contemplated "rising" of the blacks - none of which reports can be traced to any source on which to base the slightest cause to apprehend such a movement is in contemplation. The colored people are as submissive & humble as when slaves.

The feeling existing towards the freedmen, softens down with time & I imagine the necessities of the Whites will compel them to forget their threats not to have any on their premises the coming year because of their having voted the Radical ticket. Unsettled as matters are, there is less complaints of injustice, by the freedmen, than there was this time last year.

I regret to report no change in the moral condition of society - among the colored people. Complaints are daily & numerous, of wives deserting husbands & vice versa - leaving families and "taking up" with other men. I have used my best efforts to