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having become parched, for their normal flow was impossible. The rising generation, in its early release from the withering influence of slavery, already shows great mental quickness, which, if encouraged and sustained by general education, must produce many examples of finely finished men. The progress in this direction is already marked; the theory of novelty no longer explains the remarkable success of freedmen's schools, and the results are as favorable for the blackest Anglo-African, as for the most faintly tinged mulatto. 
But the apathy above mentioned as the worst feature in the condition of freedmen is partly due to existing circumstances. Emancipation has brought them more promise than profit. Their labor arrangements are most unsatisfactory; landholders have and will keep the advantage by maintaining a low rate of wages, and high rents (excepting Northern settlers, who, as a rule create satisfaction) so that it is impossible for the laborer to more than half support his family; he finds himself unable to lay up the means of buying land and has before