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At a large and intelligent meeting of Planters, held in the City of Savannah on the 6th day of June 1865 _ the [[novel?]] [[strikethrough]] condition [[/strikethrough]] position in which the Planters of our State, have been placed by the results of the war which has just been closed, occupied their serious attention, exciting fearful forebodings of the distress, awaiting the future for themselves, for their State, and for that unfortunate race of people who have for generations composed a part of their families, and whose intent and happiness, have been so mutually dependent, and interwoven with each other
The results of this sad war, if not having already effected is threatening to sever that long existing relationship between Masters and Slaves; and placing the slave in the new condition of freemen, dependent upon his own judgement industry, energy and economy, to advance his happiness and success in life; and on the wisdom of his determination depends the success of the Planter, and the prosperity of the  State [[strikethrough]] and could [[/strikethrough]] as the wellbeing of the colored Race - 
The consequence of such reflections was a conviction - 
1st The necessity of a wise system for the management of labor, being devised as a permanent measure for the future, and 2nd The necessity of the adoption of speedy and effective means to secure the cultivation, and harvesting of the growing crops This last, requiring immediate attention.
Should the effects of the Presidents Emancipation Proclamation be the same throughout the State [[strikethrough]] be the same as [[/strikethrough]] they have been on our immediate vicinity, an almost total [[loss?]] of the crops must ensue. The desire for freedom being so natural to all men, and the conception of its value being so fanciful in the slaves; generally considering, its essential quality, as the exemption from all labor _ that so soon as he is aware, that he is made a freeman by the power of the government, and from the experience of others, learns that the same power provides him with the needed rations for the support of him self and family, all control of the Planter is lost, and labor terminates-