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the crop, to what I considered the best advantage; and in shipping it to New Orleans for sale, I did what hundreds of others have done, and adopted the same course with the cotton belonging to the Freedmen that I did with not only [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] my portion of that crop, but all of a crop made on my own place adjoining.

I hold that I cannot be made responsible for the fluctuations of the cotton market, and if instead of a rapid decline, an advance, or no great fluctuation had taken place, New Orleans being a far better market than Columbus it would have been the most advantageous disposition that could have been made [[strikethrough]] with the [[/strikethrough]] of the cotton. Bills of sale and expenses