Facts Concerning the Freedmen Their Capacity And Their Destiny
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About 1000 have been employed by the government, and by order of Gen. Curtis they were to receive $10 per month, rations, and clothing ; but Gen. Steele ordered that their tcages should be *^ retained, '''' that it might be decided in courts of law whether it should he paid to them, or their masters. Soldiers get $13 per month, rations, and $3. 50 in clothing. The freed men have not been paid off at all that we are aware of. I ' About $50, 000 are now due them ; and not / less than $80, 000, we...re they to get the same : as white laborers for similar work. Their wages would more than have sup- ported them ; and such as have obtained money from other sources have frequently been robbed of it. 8. Generally bad-very 6a(i. Maj. Gen. Cur- tis, Gen. Washburn, Gen. A. P. Hovey, and some others, have dealt justly and humanely with them, but many officers and their subor- dinates have been hard, unjust, and' cruel to them. And by the ordinary privates of the army they are treated as savages and brutes.
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