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when beaten pretend to be the best friends of their conquarers, and degrade themselves to the position of whining [[?]], they need watching, for if opportunity presents itself, they stoop to any meanness to inflict a wound upon those who had been their political opponants, and especially if those opponants are helpless and ignorant and in the minority in those communities where they have an [[?]] to commense their war opon them.

In regard to moral reforms the freedmen are making improvements, though not as rapidly as might be desired. In temperance, adultry and every kind of immorality and crime are receiving the current disapprobation of the better clases of their race. And in most combined efforts are being made to repress them,

Earnest efforts are being made to raise money to add to the appropriation