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They are identified with that class of men who instead of remaining at home- and attending to their own affairs properly- leave the whole management of their plantations to their head man,- and spend their whole time in the villages- at the Courts- or public sales- babbling about their "lost cause" or abusing the Yankee Government, which they are careful not to do, within the hearing of Government Officers- 

The practical result of the agricultural operations in my sub-district for the year 1866 ought to convince every reflecting man that the free labor system judiciously managed will in ten years develope the agricultural interests of the South to a greater extent, than would 50 years under the old slave labor system- And I am inclined to the opinion that that is the conviction of many of those