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do some of the Freedmen believe it that it will have a tendency to discourage them. They should by all possible means be properly instructed on this point by the Sub-Commissioners throughout the State, and the idea dispelled for their own good. 

In the country, the Freedmen that remained at their old homes, but little complaint is made of them, except that they wont do as much work as before the war. This is the "hue and cry" among the planters. They say if a Freedman is hired by the month to pick cotton he wont pick as much per day as if he was hired by the hundred pounds, and other like excuses. This may be true in some cases, but it can be changed to the advantage of the planter if he will only hire his cotton picked by the pound altogether.

But in that instance the black man would make too much money — he would earn more than ten or fifteen dollars per month, which the planter does not like to see. In one neighborhood several planters agreed to pay their hands fifty cents per hundred and they board themselves. Large number worked for that price.