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quietly and to a casual observer, all seems peace and harmony. there is a feeling of antagonism between the two races that is constantly showing itself in various ways, especially persecuting and cheating them of their hard earned wages, charging exorbitant prices for provisions or whatever else they sell them, a partial administration of the law etc. If an offence is committed by a white man against a freedman (if punished at all) by the lightest fine or otherwise as the law demands, If by a negro against a white man a maximum is extended. So long as this feeling is manifested by the controlling race, so long will it be impossible to harmonize the two, and so long as the laws are administered with the discrimination now practiced, so long well evil result

To this discriminating and unjust administering of the laws as well as their former servitude may be ascribed the indolence and immorality that now exists.

And much change cannot be