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state of feeling between the races. As far as the labor question is concerned. the general experience of this office is that the freedmen will work, and are willing and anxious to work where they are fairly treated and honestly paid. It is not believed that those employers who have faithfully fulfilled their contracts and agreements with freedmen have experienced any difficulty in obtaining labor or have any complaint to make of their violation of contracts. It is also observable that the strongest and most pertinacious complaints have come from those who have not yet learned the necessity of justice in their own acts, before they hold the freedmen - less instructed in moral responsibility - to the rigid letter of contracts carefully devised in their own interests. It has been quite common for employers to present complaints at this office which a little questioning showed to have been caused by their own utter disregard of the simplest principles of honesty towards the negro, and for them to go away angry, incensed, and deploring the condition of the country when suggestion has been made to them that a little honesty their part, in return for a great deal expected,

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