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have been adjusted on as equitable terms as possible -- few of the laborers can't read or write and therefore keep no account of articles received from employers and many frauds are practiced upon them. Public sentiment towards education is still very unfavorable but yet the schools are progressing rapidly, and a general interest in them is manifested by the Freedpeople. No actual suffering is known or believed to exist in the division, and where application has been made to the concerns of the poor, they have received favorable attention.

In the cases tried before the Civil Courts (which are mostly for larceny) the decisions are considered just, and the sentences merited.

Political persecutions for the time being seems to be allayed, although a powerful conservative organization is known to exist for the purpose of defeating the new Constitution, and when the question is submitted to the people, every argument short of open violence will be used to induce the Freedmen to vote against it.

Inflamed religious dissension founded