family as it does those of the white
race, we cannot but regard this wholesale attempt to transfer a
people without means and without intelligence, from the homes of
their nativity in this manner, as injurious to the people of the
South, injurious to the people and the labor system of the State
where they go, and, more than all, injurious to the last degree
to the black people themselves. That there is much in their
condition to be deplored in the South no one will deny; that that
condition is gradually and steadily improving in every respect is
equally true. That there have been clashings of the races in the
South, socially and politically, is never to be denied nor to be
wondered at; but when we come to consider the method in which the
people were freed, as the result of a bitter and desolating civil
war; and that for purposes of party politics these incompetent,
ignorant, landless, homeless people, without any qualifications
of citizenship, without any of the ties of property or the
obligations of education, were suddenly thrown into political
power, and the effort was made not only to place them upon an
equality with their late masters, but to absolutely place them in
front and hold them there by legislation, by military violence,
and by every other means that could possibly be resorted to; when
we consider these things no philosophical mind can behold their
present condition, and the present comparative state of peace and
amity between the two races, without wonder that their condition
is as good as it is.

No man can behold this extraordinary spectacle of two people
attempting to reconcile themselves in spite of the interference
of outsiders, and to live in harmony, to promote each other's
prosperity in spite of the bitter animosities which the sudden
elevation of the one has engendered, without the liveliest hope
that if left to themselves, the condition of the former subject
race will still more rapidly improve, and that the best results
may be reasonably and fairly expected.

Your committee is further of the opinion that all the attempts of
legislation; that all the inflammatory appeals of politicians
upon the stump and through the newspapers; that the wild and
misdirected philanthropy of certain classes of our citizens; that
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