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labor as safe as possible, and in as nearly the old condition as may be.  How far "policy" may incline them to juster action remains to be seen.

If they make severe vagrant laws, applicable to both black and white, they are steering between Icylla and Charybdis, For the poor whites who vote, may not like to be classed with negroes, and on the other hand, in the execution of such laws the negroes may be the only sufferers, as in the matter of bearing arms, for example.

I omitted to say that at Canton I heard from an intelligent Northern man, that a colored courier from Grenada, was assailed by ruffians, one of whom he shot, and escaped unhurt.