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and I may say cannot, without objection and repugnance, recognize and accept the changes which the laws have made - inasmuch as they do not see those changes in the colored race which they suppose is expected to be speedily made simply by the change in the laws alone. From this fact arises much of the unchristian feeling on the part of the whites towards the colored people. From the sentiment and, to them, the evidences of the superiority of race, the exercise of relations and conditions which are superior in their application, comes easy. Time alone can remove the austerities seemingly natural in the whites, time alone can annihilate those objectionable peculiarities and failings seemingly natural in the blacks, and cause good feeling and harmony to exist between the two.

Both classes lack proper moral and intellectual culture. The whites need it most. The colored race being docile and imitative in their present development, if the whites had that appreciation of their condition and that feeling for them which is borne of proper education, there would be no such antagonisms, no such injustices, no such hates, no such jealousies and no such distrusts as we now see existing between them.

I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
P. H. McLaughlin
A. S. A. C. B. R. F. & A. L.

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