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I blame the whites for being inconsiderate and selfish, the blacks for improvidence and lack of enterprise; they can and ought to make contracts in the preceeding August. they put this off till Winter or Spring and when out of food discontentedly accept what terms the employer may offer the starving applicant; no wonder labor is unsteady. But it is mainly the fault of the tines: want of capital.

In my report of June 1866 I mentioned the bad effect of  the oystering interest. I would reaffirm what I then stated. The oysterman is, of necessity, idle in winter when the weather is bad- he does well when he does at all, but when doing nothing spends his easily got earning- learns bad ways and, at the end of the season, is apt to be a poorer and a worse man that at the beginning of it- In Matthews last winter the woodcutter at Toct's a cord made and saved more money than the oystermen from their rich beds: the former is decidedly the better class.

Col Sane. magistrate. a well educated (rebel) resident said in the procurance of several of his friends that the "freedmen behaved quite as well as before the war- no fault is to be found are encouraged to steal by low whites who buy of them- Intemperance is not to be complained of that is much the

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