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No complaints come from, or concerning them, on 
that ground, and there are those who would make complaint promptly provided any cause existed. In most instances, and almost invariably in the cases where the former master hires his former slave, a greater or less number of the relatives of the employee, who are nonproductive, are kept and provided for by the employer. The compensation of the employee is required to be such as will enable him to clothe himself properly and to meet such other expenses as are absolutely necessary. It is considered that this, as a beginning, is all that can be expected of, and by, either party, and while, as stated, no complaints are made on the part of the colored people, the whites often complain of the breaking of his contract by the negro, and request with much justice that he should be compelled to fulfil his part of the contract. Everything is being done to secure the rights of both parties, and no meetings or resolutions of either shall be permitted to be prejudicial to the other, if it can be prevented. The information

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