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their freedom and the protection of the laws a like with white People.- One great cause of dissatisfaction still existing among Freedmen is their inability to collect pay for labor; to be discharged by an employer, without receiving what is duly earned, and without the means to support wife and children is enough to depress, and discourage anyone from seeking for new chances of making a support.

The Stay law should be abolished, as least labor should be protected, without which a Country must eventually be ruined.

Respectfully
your obt. Servant
R. Theune
Bvt Major & Asst Supt
R. F. & A. L.