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the negro in any other light and is disposed to reap the fruits of his labor at the smallest possible expense to himself.- The politician however, seeks to accomplish the object by and through the operation of vagrant laws and other laws, and regulations, concerning the freedmen, which would ere long subject them to a kind of servitude but little less galling than the old system.

Many of the planters have been suddenly reduced from comfortable circumstances to limited means, and being anxious to regain their former pecuniary standing seem inclined to accomplish the object at the expense of the Negro.- This in connection with the fact that they have been conquered and deprived by the Government of many of their privileges, makes them feel spiteful and impels them to justify the rebellion and all who were concerned in it.- Thus although slavery is dead and the colored man free, the 

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