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credit.- Planters already overburdened with debts became entirely discouraged and laborers finding themselves in debt for supplies already consumed instead of realizing a profit for their year's labor were discouraged also, while to add to their other misfortunes the merchants, having lost so ruinously, unanimously refused to give any further credit; thus abolishing the only system upon which agricultural operations have heretofore been conducted in the cotton growing states.- The unfortunate condition of his affairs was attributed by the planter to the inefficiency of labor under the modern civil and political relations of the freedmen while the laborer attributed the unfortunate condition of his affairs to efforts on the part of employers to appropriate the fruits of his labor to themselves and thus jealousy and suspicion were added to the despondency which existed everywhere.-

Complaints against freedmen for killing stock and for marauding and pillaging came in from all sides, while