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laws and securing plans for the protection of the colored man instead of lounging idly about brawling about their rights and persecuting the Negro and in a few years we will have in the Freedmen a thrifty and honest people.

As to the feeling among the white people toward the Freedmen, I am sorry to say that I have not observed any change favourable to the Freedmen, that is since my last Report- The planters very naturally desire to manage their affairs in their own way and some of them doubtless desire to have the old state of things restored, and a certain class regard the Bureau as an interference on the part of the National Government with affairs of the State.-  Having been educated to regard the colored man as a kind of property, in which he could profitably invest money and having been deprived of this without remuneration, he is reluctant to recognize 

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