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is no easy matter to regulate. It requires time, vigilance and toil.- time to wear away prejudices and restore confidence between former master and slave - vigilance to defend the right and bring criminals to punishment - and new desire to Labor that a desolated but fertile country lying beneath a genial sky may again yield ample rewards to industry. Courage and faith are indispensable to all who would seek to restore peace and harmony for never was society more disorganized or its elements more discordant than here.

In the first place, our labors are with two separate and distinct races. Between them there is a certain barrier of race - a difference of color and physical structure which can never be obliterated. It will always remain. As nature separates continents by wide spreading oceans and lofty mountain rages, so there is a certain natural barrier between races which cannot be altered and which determines and limits, to a great extent, the social position of races within itself. Hence the social position of either race need not concern us.

But the problem which crowds itself upon us is not so easy of solution. On the one hand we have a white race, with strong wills, who have rapidly acquired large