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this measure only a degree better than starving in Hampton, or at Yorktown, where, if there is less food, there is more safety. I believe in scattering the people, but in restoring the Freedmen's Courts.

There is no opportunity of education in the country, and the loss of this, to those who remove, is serious.

Emigration to Florida may yet in a measure succeed - it should be wisely urged.

The brightest prospect is in the proposed railroad from Richmond to Newport News; it [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] will employ many hundred freedmen for about eighteen months, and give them the means of purchasing land. The company, I have heard, proposed to pay partly in land - a good way to prevent the squandering of wages. This will be a God-send to the floating population of the Peninsula; they can work and their children go to school. Work on this road will be commenced, it is said, on [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] or before the 20th of August next.

The freedmen barely comprehend the fact of the restoration of lands, and cry out against the injustice of it; hence few are good rent payers;