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been produced for the last fifteen years and the freedmen have generally worked well and faithfully especially those working on Shares. For the past two years they have been turned off many of them without pay and to be served the same this year, when the prospect of a remunerative reward for their labour is so good is the harshest kind of injustice. Permit me therefore to suggest, the propriety of giving further protection to freedmen, by making an order that no crop shall be permitted to leave the Plantation on which it was made until all the employees engaged in making it, be fully & partly paid. They are doing the colored people great injustice in the system of orders on stores providing here, in this, that the freedman being ignorant and unable to comprehend accounts, they find themselves at the end of the  year in debt $50 to $100 - when the real value of what they have received would not amount to perhaps $50 - I have sent to to Judge Edwards of the Great Republic Washington an extract from the "Memphis Afalanche," developing the programmes, the like determination to refuse employment to all freedmen who join the Union League, vote against the wishes of their employers, or register even- The same determination has been made here - since I commenced this letter a party of freedmen here called at my office and informed me that, the have been discharged and driven off, and forbidden the premises - because they have registered as