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quite common for employers to present complaints at this office, which a little questioning showed to have been caused by their utter disregard of the simplest principles of honesty towards the negro, and for them to go away incensed and deploring the condition of the country when suggestion has been made to them, that a little honesty in return for a great deal expected might work the remedy of their grievances. 
The feeling between the races is also improving, or rather there seemed to be a hopeful tendency toward the establishment of relations of harmony which is decreasing daily the danger of collision. There is to be sun, among the lower class of whites much contempt and hatred still existing, but it is believed that these feelings have no very wide scope or influence. It is also true that there are amongst the colored race and amongst those who counsel them, a few impulsive injudicious, and even violent men whose advice tends to make social mischief and trouble, but the strength of these men is daily decreasing, as the evil consequences of such advice come to be more clearly seen by the thoughtful and well meaning. 
As to the operations of the State laws upon the Freedmen, it is quite apparent that, as they were originally enacted in a spirit of making as little concession to or provision for the newly enfranchised race and possible, so they practically operate not to elevate the freedmen, but, at the very best to keep him at the point where enfranchisement left him. This tendency is indeed