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The demand for colored women there is very great, - ordinary female field hands so they are intelligent and willing to work are eagerly received, and get at least eight dollars per month, besides being "found" in all respects. There is much difficulty in getting the women to go - men are very willing - I have frequently heard "Hayti" mentioned when urging women to go. That affair has killed the Florida emigration scheme, and made the people suspicious of my effort to get them homes and employment elsewhere.

Still, with government aid, I think that, in a few months, some four hundred of the floating population at this point can be removed to Boston. 

The "reconstructed" take some pains to tell the freedmen that those who thus go are sold into slavery, and seem to be jealous of and opposed to my efforts on their behalf.

A vigorous effort made to send a hundred orphan children to the farm school at Washington was a failure, created a panic, and wild rumours; - the women rushed to the "Butler School House" to save their children from being carried off and sold,

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