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claim that the colored people are entering the winter more poorly prepared than at any time since the surrender, are they in Danville and vicinity?" stated there was a better provision made than during either winter that their condition in every respect was better and then would not be as much suffering as among the poor whites. At Lynchburg the closing of the tobacco factories so far has wrought little trouble and suffering notwithstanding the enormous rents charged for every and any tenement throughout the city and suburbs. Yet the resumption of work in early spring will find the colored people as fully provided for as in either 1866 or 1867. Throughout the various counties I could observe or learn of no indications of general suffering. There is in the minds of a large class of whites the impression that a negro is necessarily [[?]] and on the road to starvation and their prophecies though as numerous as in former winter seasons will in my judgement prove quits as idle as these of the part
All the good labor is much sought for in very rural districts and then can be no just cause for want in any able bodied family in my whole sub district outside of Lynchburg