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and the value of time; and consequently idleness is disappearing and a healthy toned system of daily labor is effecting a comparative independence, which promises permanent good.

A demand for labor during the summer and fall gave constant employment to all who wished to avail themselves of reasonable compensation - and many have saved and invested their little surplus earnings in a house for the future.

Not a single complaint of violation of contracts has been made against the Freedmen, while a large number have been made against the whites.

In contracts for labor on shares of the crop, many advantages are taken by the land-owners; frequently when the Freedmen contract to receive one half or one third of the wheat or corn crop, at the time of settlement they receive their part of the grain, but are defrauded out of their just and valuable portion of the straw or fodder - Still in other cases when employed by the month, legal measures, have too often to be resorted to, in order to compel a settlement.  Until men are actuated by a sense of Justice towards the Freedmen