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right to the lands, which has been industriously preached to eager listeners: of which the effect has been and will be most disastrous. It is to be regretted that Mr. Wyat who, in spite of his belief in divine rights, argued the necessity of paying rent should have been thus misrepresented, thus giving to the world in the "500 copies printed for distribution" the false idea that freedmen had "paid de rent," and done their whole duty, whereas on the S.G. Cooke farm - the second in importance - not one fourth of last year's rent has been paid and Wyat himself has paid up only one quarter's rent for 1866. A false sympathy is thus created, - or rather a sympathy in the wrong direction, and the position of Bureau Officers is made untrue, for, instead of being told to "leave these lands by the Superintendent of the Bureau," when I addressed the same audience the night before, as is stated in the introductions to the freedman's speech, I told them distinctly that those who paid or should pay their rents could remain this year, and gave no