| For first-class hands | $8.00 | per month. |
| For second-class hands | 6.00 | " " |
| For third-class hands | 5.00 | " " |
| For fourth-class hands | 3.00 | " " |
| First and second class hands, with families | 1 acre each. |
| First and second class hands, without families | 1/2 " " |
| Second and third class hands, with families | 1/2 " " |
| Second and third class hands, without families | 1/4 " " |
The two documents have little similarity. Both are appropriate to the systems they are intended to regulate. It is interesting to compare their merits at the present time. It will be doubly interesting to make a similar comparison twenty years hence.
While I was in Natchez, a resident of that city called my attention to one of the "sad results of this horrid, Yankee war."
"Do you see that young man crossing the street toward ----'s store?"
I looked in the direction indicated, and observed a person whom I supposed to be twenty-five years of age, and whose face bore the marks of dissipation. I signified, by a single word, that I saw the individual in question.
"His is a sad case," my Southern friend remarked.
"Whisky, isn't it?"
"Oh, no, I don't mean that. He does drink some, I know, but what I mean is this: His father died about five years ago. He left his son nothing but fourteen or fifteen niggers. They were all smart, young hands, and he has been able to hire them out, so as to bring a yearly income of two thousand dollars. This has supported him very comfortably. This income stopped a year ago. The niggers have all run away, and that young man is now penniless, and without any means of support. It is one of the results of your infernal Abolition war."
I assented that it was a very hard case, and ought to be brought before Congress at the earliest moment. That a promising young man should be deprived of the means of support in consequence of this Abolition war, is unfortunate--for the man.