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shamefully by their employers. in the matters of exorbitant charges for Rent. [[?]] last time &c. that there is really but little inducement offered them to become an industrious population. I think they deserve a vast deal of credit for accomplishing what they have, toward becoming a thrifty and self supporting people especially when we consider the disadvantages under which they labor. It cannot be expected of any people that they should make any more rapid advancement. than the Freedmen are now making. in the South, when they are surrounded by every influence entended to discourage and dishearten them especially in their business transactions,

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