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by an educated and intelligent colored man, and is a private institution.

In many instances efforts are made, and with some success, too, by the whites, to keep the colored people, as much as possible, in the same condition they were before they were manumitted. - by paying them for their labor, whenever they can in old cloths and such other old [[trash?]] as they can put off on them, at a fabulous price; and in many other ways which their bitterness of feeling and cunning can suggest. As regards their chances before the law, I would respectfully invite your attention to my report on that particular subject.

It is indeed surprising to witness the meekness of the freedmen to all these abuses, I have not known of an instance where a colored man has returned violence when assaulted by a white man; but they have born with all until they could appeal to the civil authorities for redress,

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