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[To be read in immediate connection with the paper sent formerly- by Mr. A.Q. Holliday.]

I need not say, Sir, that the works here enumerated are not now mentioned for the first time.  They are thus presented in array to the attention of the Government Agents, to show that there is work, other than agricultural, remaining to be done in our Southern Country, enough to employ the thousands who will otherwise be idle, profitably to themselves & usefully to the country.  These schemes - some of which may have been originally suggested by  practical men, who felt the inconvenience of the existing state of things -  have all received the sanction of men of science, as being both useful and practicable; & the feasibility of several of them has been tested by instrumental survey.  Detailed information concerning each of these may be found, in the archives of Government - either State or Federal - or is otherwise easily accessible.

They are various as to character, & scattered through divers states; each state of the South being interested in one or more of them.  And though, as being of different degrees of importance, some may justly claim precedence over others; yet, lest it should be said that any one is monopolizing the favor of Government, several might be carried on simultaneously. -And this would otherwise comport with the public conscience.  As slavery pervaded the entire South, so will greater or less numbers of the unemployed be found in each state, & at points from whence they may be easily transferred to the localities where wanted.  Those nearest to any public work might first be employed, thereon; or be reinforced, if necessary, by others from points where their assistance was less required.  And this again will be further favored by the fact, that the sites of most of the proposed works is either near the Atlantic or Gulf Coast, or on or near some navigable stream, which would enable the Government, with the means of transportation at its command, readily & economically to concentrate a force on any designated point.

Much of the labour of the Blacks, when engaged in agriculture, has been either less productive than could have been wished, or else wasteful & ill directed - even tending to the destruction of the soil.  But if employed on the works here proposed, the strength which would otherwise be little better than brute force, being directed by men of science,

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