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and laborers are made in this office and I plainly discern evidences daily of an improving state of feeling between the races.

But little time is idled away and very little interest is taken in political affairs by the Freedmen here attributable probably to the fact that they are so sadly in the minority. 

The school interest is in a prosperous condition and all three now in operation are well attended and judiciously managed. 

I have discovered that among the agricultural people especially the greatest possible kind feeling is cherished toward the Freedmen but among the towns people there is a vast deal of hatred cherished, in fact cultivated against the race