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not mean by this that such a state of feeling exists among the classes as indicates reconciliation on the part of the white man to the changes in the labor system, but simply to state that the industry and economy of the freedmen has exceeded the calculations of the white man by reason of which the latter has but little cause to complain of the former.  From the manner in which the crops are turning out, there can be no reasonable doubt but that the practical operations of the free labor system are far more productive of good to all concerned that was the old system.  The condition of the Freedmen is improving, and will continue to improve in proportion to the extent to which they realize the nature of the relation they sustain to the white man - and the nature of the duties they owe to each other.