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fabricate - I know of nothing that would more effectively develope and cultivate those qualities in the Freedmen than the miserable treatment they are receiving from the white people in certain portions of the South-

At any rate the Freemen in my district are demonstrating the fact that they can be industrious, and are fully capable of taking care of themselves in a state of freedom- nor should this be surprising when the fact is recalled that in a less favorable condition they provided for themselves and Masters also- for it cannot be denied that the wealth of their old masters was mainly the accumulation of their own productive labor.

Let the white man of the South give the colored man fair chances to become industrious &c by presenting to him such incitements to industry as are presented to the white laborer of the west- and let the politicians turn their attention to framing 

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