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of the Crop, or for month wages, and compel them to work as poor white men do at the north, (for the majority of them will not do it unless forced to,) and then at the end of the year compel the employer to pay the amount due. If this is not done, the entire population will become paupers, and a tax upon the government. The results of this years planting demonstrates the fact, that the amount of labor heretofore performed by the Slave, will not feed and clothe a free man and his family, and that the old system of tasks, has to be abolished, and people who till the soil of South Carolina and expect it to renumerate them for their labor, must work as they do in States where farm labor is profitable, from sunrise  until sundown, less the time for meals. The yield of Cotton in this Sub. District this year is a fraction over the average, not quite three Bales to the hand, and the financial condition of the District so far as the freed people are concerned, can be briefly calculated in this way. One third of the people are nonproducers, and the other two thirds, have worked for one third of the Crop. If the average is their Bales to the hand, then the people are entitled to one, which will amount to forty, or forty five dollars, and over [[/strikethrough]]