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advice as to their future, but I fear with little likelihood of their following it.

I cannot understand what is their intentions hereafter, but I assure you that of at least 3000 hands in Burke Cty there are not 50 who will even talk of making arrangements for the next year.  I have not been able to find a solitary one. The matter is becoming really alarming [[?]] & they too must come to actual want if they will not work.  They are stealing every thing eatable evidently with the view of having something to eat, so as not to be driven by necessity to labour.  Those who receive provisions for this years labour, refuse to sell at any price, looking to the same end.  The planters are anxious to