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it with all of its provisions. And only force will make them comply with its requirements. But little can be expected from the Sub-Com'r's. at that place, so little power does he possess, and under the circumstances he has performed his part well. All through the country from Fayette to Brookhaven I found the freedmen striving hard to earn their living. They seemed to be healthy and cheerful, but poorly clothed. Very few of the hands have comfortable clothing, but they all expect clothing for Winter; because as they say "Master promised it to us." The universal cry is that the "nigger wont work," and every one is praying that a law may be passed to make him work - that he does not know how to work or do for himself, and the white man must do for him. They are all thieves and liars, vagrants and nuisances, and must leave the country. 
The negro is a great incubus because he is free, and the spirit of the people especially in that section of the country will never accord to the negro one right