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This leaves them homeless & without the means of support. Even with the best disposition on the part of the landholders, the results of the war have incapacitated them from employing more than one third of their former number. But instead of kindness there is an evident feeling of hostility & a purpose on the part of their ex-owners to prove the truth of their own prediction, that "freedom would be only a curse to the nigger." With their renewed possession of their farms they give no indication of a renewed heart toward the black man. Even teachers have had to consult their own personal safety by withdrawing, since the return of peace, from places where they were safe during the war. But for each door thus shut against the teachers, there is a tenfold demand for men & means to save both pupils & parents from perishing. There is no time to lose in discussing the policy or the Providence that has placed this people in their present peril. Action & not argument is what their condition demands & that speedily, or there will [[strikethrough]] such [[/strikethrough]] be such a record of suffering & mortality as the world has                                

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offensive word, but as transcribers, we must transcribe as written