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which he assumes in making a contract. A further embarrassment is found in the excess of laboring population over the supply of profitable labor.  It is impossible for the employers, even with the best intentions to give all the laborers such wages as their support and that of their families requires. It is believed that this evil cannot be wholly remedied without the emigration from the state of at least fifty thousand Freedmen.

The disposition to roam from place to place and especially to leave the country for towns and camps is almost entirely corrected.  There is very little changing of location except when necessary to provide the means of subsistence.  They are generally contented with such arrangements for their services as can be made, and are seeking homes and employment that promise to be permanent.

The capacity of the Freedmen of Virginia to take care of themselves, even under adverse circumstances, is best shown in the South Eastern

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