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surrounded by difficulties,- but he was unable to say how they could be removed. After practical questions were propounded to him, to which he gave sensible answers. His remarks were characterized by sound good sense,- but he said nothing indicating- as James Williams asserts- that he had deserted the colored people and gone over to the whites. 
Captain Farrand, who had attended the meeting, was then called upon, and if my memory serves me correctly, the call was repeated to several persons. He responded, in a few sensible and practical remarks, taking the ground that the copartnership system had proved a failure. The system of paying money-wages, which was based upon the experience of the world, was the true system. He insisted that planters should comply strictly with their contracts with the freedmen, paying them all the stipulated to pay, and that the freedmen in turn, should be required to comply with their part of the contract. As to the amount of wages that should be paid, he did not think, in view of the low price of cotton, that planters could afford to pay for the next year as high as ten dollars a month.