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getting the negroes to work. They do now, and always have done, all the physical labor of the South, and if treated as they should be by this Government, (which is so anxious to be magnanimous to the White people of this country, who never did do any work, and never will) they will continue to do so. Who are the workmen in the fields of the South? Who are hauling the cotton into market, driving hacks and drays in the cities, repairing streets and railroads cutting timber, and in every place, raising the hum of industry?  The Freedmen, not the rebel soldiery.  The Southern white men, true to their instincts and training, are going to Mexico or Brazil, and talk of importing Coolies- Irishmen- anything, to avoid work; any way to avoid putting their shoulders to the wheel.
  Yet our Government is willing to place these same rebels in authority, and turn over the administration of justice for the blackman, to this class of men!
  The mass of the Freedmen in the Valley can and