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they still insist that at Christmas the Government will provide for them and they will negotiate no arrangement for another year.
The minds of the negroes must be disabused of these impressions. We must get labor elsewhere, or the country must return to its wilderness condition. Believing that it is your desire to promote every laudable effort to stimulate the agricultural but drooping energies of the country I have addressed you this letter as much for the benefit of my neighbors as for myself, hoping that you will take such action in the premises as will best carry out the views expressed in your circular-there being now in this county one of the wealthiest in Geo. no systematised efforts so to do. On my own behalf I will state that I desire to obtain sixty laborers and have accompanied this with a proposition for compensation.

Allow me, Sir, to apologise for occupying your time thus far-but permit me to assure you that the former reputed agricultural wealth of Southern Georgia was near