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a much larger expenditure of money and effort. Many citizens, adhering to the ideas and customs of the past, strongly oppose these movements, while others endorse and encourage them. The sentiment of the community is gradually changing in favor of educating the Freedmen.

The irritation existing between the whites and Freedmen, immediately after the cessation of hostilities, has greatly abated, and instances of personal violence are becoming more rare. There is, however, much for the citizens to learn, in regard to the best management of free labor, and much for the late slaves to learn in regards to their duties as freemen. The attempt to introduce the contract system, so essential to the reorganization of the labor of the state, is embarrassed by many difficulties. The master has been unaccustomed to sustain to the laborer, the relation which this system implies, and seeks to retain by contract much of the power, which the slave system formerly gave him, and the Freedman has yet to learn properly to appreciate the obligations

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