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These hands are worth on an average at least $6.00 per month. They have worked over three months. One hand's wages would be worth, in money, $18.00 for the three months. The 80 hands wages, in money, for three months labor would amount to $1440.00. Is it right, is it first, is it honorable, that the employer shall receive this large sum of money from the labor of his poor and ignorant freedmen because they have violated their contract by not complying to the very letter of the agreement? Is it right that they should be turned loose on the community without a cent to die by starvation or [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] compelled to steal to satisfy the cravings of hungers? It would be impossible for even one-third of them to get immediate employment, and they would be turned loose on this community at Vagrants and thieves. 

If Mr. Blow has the right to expel all these negroes and not pay them a cent, as he contends he has, he can by bringing suit, make in one day $1440.00 in money for his employer, or he can save the whole of the crop made by the freedmen for forfeiture of their wages. 

If such contracts are to be enforced in all cases then mean, dishonest white men will employ freedmen to make a crop for them and after it is made they will watch every negro closely to get a few hours against him so that