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the people by a system of Schools which will reach every person of all colors in which they are not only taught the rudiments of reading writing &c. but are instructed in their duties as men and citizens and in correct morality. The greatest difficulty to be met in this will be the freedman's attachment to and desire to imitate the vile habits and unjust practices of their late masters. The freedmen like to be petted and called "a good fellow" and asked to step up to the bar and drink by their former masters. Many of them like to be told that marriage is unnecessary as such instruction enables them to gratify their base desires unrebuked. Whenever an opportunity occurs they are fond of imitating  the show of authority and disregard of the rights of others common to their late masters. They dislike the restraints that good moral instruction imposes These things are more noticed in those localities