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his rights, made fair & just contracts, They have no trouble in getting along with their Freedmen, They say as well as ever. There is quite a number of Northern men working plantations about here  all say that there is no trouble in getting Freedmen to work if an honest and fair course is pursued with on the part of the employer - on the other hand when people have come to me with complaints that their hands are a lazy & thieving set will not work I find on examination that the trouble is not altogether with the negro but that there is short sightedness and bad management on part of the employer. in those cases I show them where I think the trouble lies and advise them to try to work under the new system showing them that its to their advantage to pursue that course. The prospect for a good crop of cotton is much better this month than last  almost everyone that I enquire of tells me that with the present prospect they

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