The complaints (grossly exaggerated, if they reach you through the medium of a pro-slavery press) of the want of labor and the diminution of production, arise not from the idleness, but the industry of the enfranchised slaves.
He argues that complaints about labor shortages in the South are exaggerated and stem from the industriousness of freed slaves.
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Up--quit yourselves like men: and may Almighty God direct and bless your efforts!
Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?
Now is the time, fellow-citizens, to assail the foe.