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and humanity are compelled to award to the Freedmen the amenities his position and status demand and which his industrious and temperate course secure for him.  This hatred and prejudice is still fostered and encouraged by many of the blacks as well as the Whites, and developes itself in various ways in their intercourse with each other, to the detriment of both sects; and while it is a deplorable fact, there is great encouragement in the knowledge that citizens of the best standing are less inclined to take advantage of the Freedmen, and manifist [[manifest]] a willingness to assist them in establishing for themselves homes and reputation, and that those who are influenced more by the depravity of their own nature than the impulses of  a sound moral character, are accountable for the impediments thrown in the way of the colored race to their progress and further prosperity. 

In one respect especially, the condition of the Freedmen in this City has been improved during the last month by the workings of 

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