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I am confident however that by energetic efforts this suffering can be greatly diminished.

By giving transportation and withholding the ration many will eventually go back to their old homes, and by sending the unemployed to such places as may need their labor, the press of population will be much reduced.

During the present month nearly one hundred unemployed freedpeople have been sent to Boston where they have formed excellent homes, and am confident, that two hundred more will go.

The difficulty is, that, deplorable as is the situation, the people do not appreciate it.  I have, within the past month, endeavored to get thirty farm hands to to go Petersburg Va. on liberal terms; my utmost and personal exertions could secure but ten.

It is thus with all parts of this and other states of the South.

The freedmen love this shore where a living is so easily picked up, and they can all be together; they wont go, other reasons for this will be after be presented)

What shall be done with the patient who won't take his medicine?

The freedmen "in their darkness" are very