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to settle as the farmer will not allow the Freedman his just share of the crop: in one case that I have heard of the farmer charges the Freedmen $150,00 rent for a log house on the farm and no such bargain was made at the beginning of the year. The colored people must starve or steal under the present state of things. 

Very Respectfully, Your obt. servt.
Watson R. Wentworth
A.S.A. Com'r.

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