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which would draw into the Country Seventy Five Millions of Dollars in gold, or its equivalent at the honest probable values of that staple.

I think that the natural current for this class of labor is to follow the Cotton growing systems of the Country, and with this view I would respectfully suggest that your Department consider the propriety of sending all unemployed persons of this class to these sections. Their labor well organized and thus applied will go far towards establishing our currency upon a firmer basis and towards putting them in condition to acquire the means to provide for their future.
If the matter is worthy the attention of the Government, I will undertake with the assistance of your Department to furnish comfortable homes and employment for all of such persons as may be sent to these states. And I will undertake to collect from the employees of these laborers such amounts as the Government may expend in transporting and feeding them to their new homes; so that the Government should be fully reimbursed.
I would suggest as the readiest means and system of remuneration for the laborers that they receive one sixth of the