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and make him work (for he wont do any thing as as they say.   I tell them I find more trouble in collecting the money for what he has already done, than in gitting him to work.

I am urging the policy of prompt payment as an experiment to see if it will not remedy the great evil complained of.

But little cotton cultivated in this county and but little work on the farms since the gathering of the corn, so many of the freedmen are out of employment.

I am urging the importance of furnishing constant employment to the freedmen the material interest of the country & under constant work for the laboring classes.

Many of these freedmen remained with their former masters under assurance they should have a fair share of the crops:  to be rationed and treated kindly.  As soon as the crops could be taken care of without their assistance.  After having been worked and whiped in a manner unprecedented, keped on half rations: were driven off under some false accusation with hadly enough filthy rags to cover their nakedness.

I am doing what I can to right