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But in the aggregate inseperable from thier degraded condition this spirit is already so morbid and universal among them as to render them incubus upon society a helpless useless improductive class, and there is danger of its soon becoming vicious and unsafe to communities the degraded untaught Negro confounds the idea of freedom with a life of idleness. They think they are free do what they please, free to expect and demand support from thier former Masters without compensation on Thier part free to enter into contract for thier labor in the culture of the fields, but perfectly free to violate such contracts and abandon Thier employers whenever they choose to do so The most intelligent of them are constantly [[strikethrough]] disclosing [[/strikethrough]] discussing questions in regard to thier future welfare. They claim certain rights and will continue to claim them until they are conceded and not seeing the immediate certainty of obtaining them from the reluctant hands of thier former Masters, thier only efforts are in promoting and organizing the dissaffection which exists rather than using thier influence to quiet and reassure the disturbed immaginations of thier less intelligent bretheren. Many notions entertained by the colored people are chimerical in the extreme, I may instance one which upon inquiry I find to have obtained more general circulation then I had supposed. This is the agrarion idea says the newly emancipated black, toil was the chief misery