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in the cities immediately under the eye of the military were frequent. The worst class of outrages and even murders often happened. Conventions and neighborhood assemblages were held to fix starving rates of wages. No redress was granted a negro by the courts for any injury done him by a white man, and it was next to impossible for him to collect his meagre earnings through these tribunals. He was not allowed to testify or to vote. None would sell him land. Everywhere came the cry from idle white men that the negro would not work and there was apparently the most obdurate determination to make his new state of freedom worse for him than his old state of slavery. 
Now all these features are modified for the better. I seldom hear of whippings or other outrages; and where they occur at least a pretence of legal redress is shown, which was not in '65. There is no conducted attempt to keep wages below a living rate, and sometimes they can be collected in court when due. Lawyers will now generally take freedmen's cases when assured of their fee, merchants seek their patronage, and farmers will sell them land at only a little more than they ask white men. There is less opposition to Freedmens schools and sunday schools are often taught by the slaveholding class. White men, having wholly abandoned the idea of ever reenslaving the negro and having rested on the throng that providence will some how put him out of the way after a while, have gone to work in good earnest themselves, and instead of cursing the Bureau many of them now regret its discontinuence. Thus a comparison might be continued though all the numberless phases of life among the whites

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