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the contracts made by their employers. Many of them enquire of me "if their employers can be made to pay them", and from such questions, I infer they are of the opinion, that they run the risk, of not being paid for their labor. This question, I meet as it was in Louisiana by telling them, the crop is a lien for their wages, and if they are not paid willingly, the Bureau, when it is established, will settle the matter for them. They are anxiously looking for the Bureau, as they think they will be "all right" when that comes along.

General, I have failed to discover any evidence of loyality amongst this people, save with few exceptions, and I believe the mass of the people are as acrimonious and bitter as ever. The "renegades" as we who left, are termed, are looked upon as recreants, unworthy of notice. With sublime effrontry, impudence and assurance, the Secessionists per se of this place, make their boasts, that eventually the "renegades" originally belonging to this country, will form a distinct community; or, to make it plain, as they mean it, no original Union man will be countenanced in this community  They say, they "acquiesce in the situation" they are in, not "from choice but by force of arms", and they speak the truth. They are as really disloyal to day, as they were three years ago!

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