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be issued and who can get no work.

It is hoped that, indeed this heavy pressure a disposition to go to their old homes or emigrate to the north or south where they can find employment will spring up

There can be no doubt that some well managed industrial enterprise - such as a manufactory of baskets - would succeed well at this point; this because there is plenty of cheap labor, which, though unskilled, is apt, willing, and easily controlled.

I am General
With Great Respect
Your Obt Servt
S C Armstrong
Supt 5 Dist Va.