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for their own poor and feeble.  This fact alone is a complete answer to the old argument that, if emancipated, the negroes could not take care of themselves.  As they perform nearly all the labor, and, consequently, are the only real producers, it follows that, as formerly, they not only support themselves but support most of the whites also.  So long as this is true there is no danger of their being driven from the State on account of political prejudice, or for any other reason.  The selfishness of men, is, in the long run stronger than prejudice or vindictive passion.  The latter soon cool and wear away while the former is forever asserting its sway.

The freedmen are temperate and sober, and I have yet to hear of the first row or collision among them occasioned by intoxicating liquor.

Now and then an affray occurs between a white and colored man; but in nine cases out of ten the white man is intoxicated and is the aggressor.  Serious crimes among them are rare and but few complaints for petty crimes ever get before the courts.  During the last eight