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observation.

The Freedmen as a general thing seem to be employed and industrious, and so far as my observations extend, they seem anxious to secure honorable, permanent employment — and no doubt would make much more rapid advancement in substantial prosperity than they do make if the same liberality characterized their employers treatment, that is observable in the relations existing between the white employers, and the white laborers. — It is a remarkable fact that the white man expects to secure the labor of the colored man, for about two-thirds of what he is willing to pay the white laborer, for the same service. 

The Colored people continue to rely upon the Bureau Officer, for the settlement and adjudication of business between themselves, as well as between the white, and colored, and seem to shrink from having their differences