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the white people profess a willingness to see the experiment tried; they will throw no obstacles in the way, now that the government decrees it; but they almost unanimously predict speedy disaster to the colored people, and look forward to the final extinction or at least expatriation of the African element, under some system of compulsory labor be established. The great and universal question with the planters, now that whipping is abolished, is, how shall we compel the negroes to work? For they all say he cannot be depended upon to work without fear of punishment by the lash.
The war has left many of the former owners helpless, but sore, bitter, and unsubdued in spirit. This condition is expressed by their favorite sayings, "We are not whipped, but only overpowered," which means if it means anything more than a salve of soft words to a wounded spirit, that though physical force holds them and theirs in its iron grasp, their souls are defiant and unyielding. That they retain
"The unconquerable will, 
And duty of revenge; immortal hate, 
And courage never to submit nor yield.
Looking upon the negro as the cause of their misfortunes, the unthinking must of course hate him.
They believe they were in the right in the late war. They are profoundly impressed with the belief that they had a perfect right to secede -- a perfect right to establish a slaveholding empire -- and that the power