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their families, and as the Colored peoples, almost without exception, are obliged to rent the houses they live in - (their extreme poverty preventing their owning property) - and as their landlords universally charge such exorbitant prices for their homes and are so cruelly exacting in the prompt payment of their tenants - much suffering may ensue. Instances of this character which have come to my notice incline me to this opinion.

The unmanly, ungenerous and I may add outrageous spirit manifested by many white men in settling their accounts with their Colored Employees seems to demonstrate hatred and entire disregard for the welfare of the freedmen entertained by their more fortunate neighbors. There are of course honorable men among them, but they can only be classed as the exceptions.

As the white man is superior to the freedmen in point of intellect and self government every advantage is taken of the ignorance of the latter in making their settlements. Many colored men have sufficed