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rules that seem to conflict with simple justice, with laws that discriminate against the poor, the State will eventually suffer from it. But yet there are really ills that need immediate and specific remedies. The old relations between capital and labor have been deranged and a new adjustment must be made. The issue of the war leaves the lands for the most part in the hands of former owners. The slaves have become Freedmen and from a thousand different causes they are restless and suspicious. Owing to the want of uniformity of action on the part of government agents, even in them is their confidence shaken. Now even the very existence of Society here demands a restoration of confidence. No degree of prosperity can be hoped for without it. A complete separation of races I deem visionary, or at least, at present, completely impracticable. My conclusion is that no effort should be spared to regulate the new relations referred to above in such a way as to secure mutual good will. Every act of violence on the part of the negro or white man, with the attending misrepresentations, becomes a new source of distrust. Then the sooner there is a good local law, sure and speedy of operation, regularly and faithfully executed, the