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the contrast is so great that it is almost proverbial with me, after a brief conversation, to determine from what locality they are from. III [[left margin]] Nature of Contracts for the present Year [[/left margin]] The nature of the contracts are as previously reported. I think that the freedmen will however insist upon receiving money for their labor during next year, and if they are given a prior lien for the wages which will attach itself to the crop in whosever hands it may be found, it will be greatly to their benefit. The rule of caveat emptor will then apply and there will be but a slight chance to defraud the laborers. IV [[left margin]] No of Sick Old or Infirm suffering from want [[/left margin]] The number of sick old or infirm among both colored and white seems to be on the increase from what I learn. I think I am committing no error, when I charge upon the more oppulent of the Southern people, a desire to encourage a famine among the poorer classes. They continually predict it & I cannot but believe "the wish is father to the thought" In this Sub Distrct