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NORTHERN NFWSPAP^R EDITORS ASSURED WHITES AND BLACKS IN SOUTH KILL WORK OUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP IF
MEDDLERS AND MISCHIEF MAKERS WILL STAY AWAY — GREATEST TROUBLE IS BETWEEN UNION SOLDIERS' OF BOTH COLORS — NEWLY FREED SLAVES HAVE YET TO 7.EARN FREEDOM REQUIRES WORK July 30* 1365
N.O. Daily True Delta - Sunday, Jrly 30, 1865	- editorial
VJHITES AND BLACKS IN THE SOUTH
Some of our Northern exchanges appear to te greatly exorcised in spirit on account of the growth of an alleged hostile spirit between the whites and blacks. We beg all our contemporaries thus afflicted not to distress themselves.
We assure their, there is not the slightest danger to be apprehended; that the feeling between the whites and their late sl?ves is of a most encouraging description, all the circumstances considered; and that there will be no difficulty worth mentioning, if inter-meddlers and mischief makers’are prevented from following their congenial calling.
Of course, it is not to be expected that everything will move onward as regularly and serenly as a summer's morning, in view of the great change that has recently taken Place; but the two races, understanding each other thoroughly, will get along very well after a while, under the operation of wholesome laws justly and judiciously administered, if left to themselves.
It would be better for both races, particularly for the blacks, if the radicals and fanatics should cease all interference in the premises.
The only trouble in the South we have ever heard of between the whites and blacks has been kex among those wearing the same uniform. Between these two classes of soldiers, we have been informed, an intensely bitter and hostile feeling exists frequently breaking out in acts of violence and ending in bloodshed.
As soon as the negroes learn that their newly acquired freedom means nothing more nor less than hard work to earn an honest livelihood —just as the white man has to work—they will become more useful to
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