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very region where the memorialists allege that idleness and vagrancy are the rule, in each individual case of kind and proper treatment; where a fair and equitable contract was made, no difficulty has occurred, a good crop has been secured, and the employer and his employees are mutually satisfied. Another allegation of memorialists is "that the freedmen often abandon the plantations for weeks together, to travel to Savannah or Beaufort, neglecting the crops &c." So far as the travel is concerned it is undoubtedly true, but it is equally true that nine in ten of such travellers have the sole purpose in view of showing how the brutallity of slavery yet remains, if its absolute rule is broken, by exhibiting lacerated thumbs, and entering formal complaint of treatment too unendurable to be longer borne at the hands of the late master. Ought the memorialists to be allowed to control their movements when made for such reasons? They further state that they "are advised that they have no power to compel labor". Thank God and President Lincoln for that! But they had such power when the duty of making just contracts was laid upon them at the close of the war, and they voluntarily abdicated it when they refused to obey the order to make proper contracts. I submit that the statement