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bodied men, not to rent hinds to the freedmen, nor to give employment to any without a certificate from their former owners. Many of the citizens, under the control of tradition, habit and education, only sullenly acquiesced in the freedom of their former slaves. They regarded the colored population as necessarily and appropriately servile and unfit for free dom ; and stimulated by the feeling that the late slaves were in someway responsible for the faUure of their cause, they were wholly disqualified from co-operating in the work of the bureau.