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provide homes for the working people but in many cases try to defeat those who do make these efforts. The consequence is that families are separated and forced to live apart in order to obtain labor to support themselves. This tends to weaken the ties of the family relation and leads to unfaithfulness and desertion. Children are left without parental support and the aged and infirm are dependent upon Charity. 

A correction of this evil can only be looked for when the whites will see that to have prosperity and happiness in the community the Domicile must be provided for and protected in all its purity and virtue.
 
Another obstacle to the Freedmen's improvement is the policy of the Land holders to let their lands be idle rather than pay laborers. There are a class of men who look upon the expences of labor as only benefiting the laborer, and as so much loss to them. They have for years so legislated that land is assessed the least of any species of property, and this together with their prejudice against free labor induces them to hold large tracts of land and do as little and employ as few laborers upon it as possible. Thereby throwing a great obstacle in the way of the improvement of the labor and the prosperity of the community 

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