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the best bargain they can for "cropping" on shares; and my conclusion is that the laborer gets the worst of it.  Invariably, he receives nothing more than enough to support him through the following winter; he never gets ahead.  The freedmen are precisely, in a [[?]] point of view, where they were two years ago.

In cases where freedmen are interested against whites there is no liklihood of full and complete justice being done to them unless the cause should be one of strikingly apparent merit, or one in which class prejudices would be not excited or appealed to.  I believe, however, that there is a growing conviction on the part of the whites that substantial justice must be done to the colored man; and that there has been a decided improvement within ten years on the administration of justice. 

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