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Mr. Good made a very able appeal and a manifest interest was exhibited which has dispelled the fears I entertained a month ago at the same place. Mr Good will present you a copy of the resolutions and inform you more fully of their reception.

General, I feel confident we have taken a great step towards a permanent system for the mistrial benefit of the classes in this country. If this association is successful. I shall feel proud and grateful that I have been connected with a principle so fraught with interest to all concerned.

I am now on a tour to all the principal plantations to see and take with the hands. An idea prevails among them that on Christmas there will be a division of all the property among them and also that those who enter a contract now will bind themselves for five years. These simple people fully believed this thing and unless they see me and hear me refute the story they persist in the belief. Unfortunately there is no confidence between the classes here and I am covering now to produce that feeling. My object now is to convince these people how helpless they are without concurrent action and to impress the conviction on both classes that one must labor and the other provide. I have talked to a great number of Freedmen who assembled here to day from the neighboring plantations all appear much interested and many are convinced.

My plan is 1st to enquire how they are at