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enince rather than leave their employers when their time has so nearly expired Most of the Freedmen with whom I have conversed recently express their intuition not to work for as low wages as most of them received last year. and I think they will be able to command more as there is a demand for labor in the Sub. Dist. and the wages they received last year were too low, and they are better able to calculate for themselves than they were a year ago. There is not much disposition among the Freedmen of Madison County to emigrate but in Greene County a great many would avail themselves of the privilidge of the Homestead bill if they were able to support themselves until they could make a crop there may be a few however who will be able to go I am very respectfully Your obedient Servant Saml. W. Carpenter Capt. V.R.C. and Asst. Supt.
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inconvenience