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to its use as the Indians, and its ruinous effects upon them will I fear be negative in the consequences of unrestricted indulgence on the part of the negroes. In their ignorant condition they are unfit to transact much business at the best, but when they are excited by liquor they are liable to be taken advantage of in the most shameful manner, and they waste their wages, destroy their usefulness, and sometimes commit crimes of which they would never have dreamed if sober. 

The negroes and the whites have gotten on remarkably well in this county, Wilcox. I do not think that it would have been possible for the same number of white laborers to have been employed in the county and so few difficulties to have arisen between them and their employers. The negroes have had many difficulties among themselves - some of them very