Year: 1866

ss..s as E s - 4uV.
price state without fear of contradiction that this healthy vro
Gus demand for labor small degree the efforts
the Freecn Bureau has only been reached by
sscnt patient At first there insu
table difficulties in the way the white people many
had lost their property the discouraged they said if is
useless to hire the negro he will not work unless driven this
you VIII not allow us to do They pointed out
few exceptional but regret be compelled stat
instances freed people had been given high
half of all they could well stocked plantation and who
through deneSs znesS they had raise food non
last them through the winter while there many worthy


ons where your people have been Industrious forced bv
the facts to admit that generally freed people
well they might easily have DONE and hope and believe they
VIII 90 the future Of under these plan
ers disheareoed they said useless attempt plant
before we will employ few of former rusy servants and let
the take care OF themselves They said dare trust these
people, If crop they will perhaps work until hot weather.
or until they tired become dissatisfied they leave
city, live in idlens be by Freednens Bureau
On the other hand the freed people full suspicion their
former masters of whom had taken advantage gnor
and practice shameless fraud upon them and whose
advice ey feared believe follow lest they should act against
heir own interests The question how shall these
eaoE and these conflicting interests Plainly the
rst thing to do convince the planter labor could be made
eab and profitable without this belief would be so tools
sh as to waste the little he might have left attempting
plant this 1t would have been simple folly argue
man out Of belief the facts of his experience tell
him the freedmen will work WE'LL when say ruthuy have


tried them and they have done it. evident something
must be done restore confidence the labor people,
or that long starvation would them the face and
abroad throughout the State The first order Of Bureau


short time after arrival stated distinct hereafter no able
bodied person. black white would be fed by the Bureau





must not cities and live ene but
country aud find homes employment During the month
nearly quite 900 raons saved the Government the
city of Savannah aone corresponding all over the
State 1t announced in the orders referred
before the Constitutional Convention hledgv that the Govern
ment insisted simply that the freed peop Should be well paid and
kindly treated and that when this done the Bureau would
encourage the freed people violate their


to Go tna WINCH would Be


Injurious to their employers and the themselves.
The of definite policy proposed to do every
thing right and proper with the freedom Of the color
ad
ton IN the convictions feelings and intentions of the people, white
and black To>dy both hopeful for the
that the reasonable policy of the Bureau became
known and understood the began brighten the dark
cloud that rested the future of the State began
bic people sad we'll the people will only work faithfully we
are all right yet afford them good are will


ing to do From the first the efforts of the Bureau put
forth assist the freed people and kind
treatment It Of felt and understood that education
schools and churches important people
must have something something shelter for them
selves and families all this persistent determined labor has been
the bad effects by
lnefcen work OF last how immensely that the
experience OF this shall convince planters that your labor
reliable and trustworthy The pressing duty devong upon
officers of the Bureau to leave nothing unone unmade
induce ana necessary compel the freed people observe their
contracts to cheerty and faithfully
IN reng n hopes we have inspired and in consequence
OF which good wages are offered the freed people of this States
1t remains for you that the Government
your BEHALF the given and promises made for your good
conduct have been made
country demonstrate this year that the that
you will not work for good true you bring


shame and modification friends and and suffering
yourselves Let urge upon you the and
impressive that you separate and go back your hoe
teach your people to work honesty and nduousy this year
to show the country that they and better
higher incentives of freedom than they did
them that their future will be moulded large xten
fixed by the record they shall make year The price you will
be able command for labor hereafter will depend wholly upon
character for industry honestly and obedience you shall establish
If shall be hope and believe the end Of year. this
land shall be covered with the abandan your toll then
deed will be blessed single year patient honest STEADY
work and the fortunes OF people established forever
the fact which will secure for YOU all the
rights and blessings mankind beow Thencward you may
receive all that possess enjoy and all doubt dap
pears of your future prospects and Remember nothing
worth having obtained without labor that education the
valuable of possessions only by study and EFFORT that neither
the rich the poor, other way that
your rise the scale of civilization must come by
work. constant patient work. without which any people will
barbrm and nsgnfcance Remember that labor imposed
by the white but by your Creators that it
blessing and that only be avoided the expense of misery
and degradation Work. that you may only accumulate property
and have homes of with all the security and happiness


their brings but that you may educate ard elevate yourx
selves and your children Work the asanlc power which