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But they raised nearly enough corn to live on.

Most of the plantations in this region were over flowed and most of them were worked, if worked at all, on the same plan as Mr. Falls, though often with no promise even of a share of the cotton crop. 

The experiment this year has generally been a failure as perhaps should have been expected. 

The negroes were disappointed of receiving wages, and almost forced to work for bare subsistence, they have been discouraged and unwilling to work well, fearing that they never should get wages, while the Planters on the other hand, seeing that they worked poorly without wages, unthinkingly inferred that they would not work at all! and hence they