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not only lucrative employment for all those who are disposed to work, but I think from the indications that those who are seeking for good reliable hands have no difficulty in getting them at fair rates and by giving assurances of prompt payment for same. I am of opinion that if the Freedmen would take advantage of their opportunities and secure honorable steady employment at the wages offered them, and encounter no difficulty in effecting settlements they would be more successful and cheerful but although as a general thing they are employed at wages amply adequate to a comfortable support they are treated so -