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The temperance question has been brought before the freedmen at nearly every meeting during the previous months & with some success. there has not been a freedman found drunk and disorderly for some time The freedmen will be self supporting in this Division if justice is always done the same as now I am Sir Very Respectfully Your Obt Srvt E.H. Ripley Asst Sub Asst Comr