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slavery times." This is a common feeling.

We had long talks with Planters, as well as with Freedmen, advising both parties for their best interests, as we might be able, with the light of this Bureau's experience. Indeed we found the Planters about as much in need of counsel, as their laborers, and some seemed quite grateful for our suggestions. 

As Vaughns Station we found the negroes not well treated. They have no wages, but bare subsistence, and seemed in doubt of wether they would be allowed to leave at the end of the year. 

The old Driver on Maj Vaughns plantation thought it was "very hard to have to leave the old quarters they had built, and the house which they had made tolerable, and be turned out of doors; if they fail to make terms with old Master."