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very much to weaken the ties of the family relations, children, also, are removed from the care of their parents, & loose nearly, or quite all filial regard. The consequence is that when parents become aged & infirm, they have no one to lean upon for support. There is an almost universal feeling on the part of land holders against selling to the Freedmen, in such quantity as would come within their means land, upon which to build a house, & out of which he can make a house, in which he can gather his family, occasionally, at least, & around which shall cluster all these endearing associations, & tender recollections, which serve as a safeguard to the young during the years of childhood, furnishing to all, in riper years, a green spot, to which memory can recur with pleasure, where all else shall have become a desert, & which has made the name of "home" one of the sweetest words in our language. How this state of things is to be changed for the better, I must respectfully submit to the future statesmen of Virginia.
3d That the ignorance, & inexperience of the Freedmen, are certainly made use of, by