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occur of unfairness on the part of the former Master. few instances of severity, Their freedom, though a bitter pill to swallow is practically acknowledged,

4th,  Their Education is generally looked upon with disfavor

5th,  Planters and land owners are willing and desirous that the Freedmen should settle on and cultivate their unoccupied lands at a fair rent.

In the City however the most exorbitant and unconscionable prices are charged for rent of Kitchens and tenements

6th,  The general conduct of the former master does not inspire as much confidence in them on the part of the Negro, as the conduct of the latter does in the former, as to his ability to govern and care for himself as a Freedman

7th,  Those unemployed are about equally divided in the cause of their idleness, In not obtaining work at fair compensation, and a natural inclination to laziness

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