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me for advice, of the price of wages, and and advising them either to seek employment on farms, where if they dont get more pay they will at least have quarters for themselves and family, and at the same time have a small "truck patch" which their family can cultivate.

There have already seven hundred enrolled their names with me for work on the R R, of which number about twelve have engaged themselves.  I am though of the belief, that the work will soon be carried on with greater vigor, and that the Co will pay better wages, for with those now offered they will not be able to get hands.

"The feeling existing between the whites & colored, I do not look upon, as being state of a friendly nature, In nearly all cases where Freedmen occupy lands not their own, they have been [[warned?]] away by land owners on the 31st of next December, for no other reason as I can learn but as these men say, "to get rid of the d-d Niggers", and drive them out of the County, so that at the approaching New Years, I anticipate some trouble."  I however let no opportunity pass of informing the Freedmen of their duties in the relation of tenants to landowners, I visit all their