Vicksburg Herald clipping

ALBERT JOHNSON, one of the colored Representatives to the Legislature from this county, requests us to notice the fact that the police and other colored persons are engaged in enticing laborers away from employers, who are passing through our city with hands whom they have been at trouble and expense to procure, and are taking to their plantations for employment.

For instance, the firm of Marshall J. Smith & Co., of New Orleans, were near suffering by this unjust practice of some of the colored ones of our city. They had been to Virginia and procured hands and were taking them to their plantation on Deer Creek. Negroes here used every means to induce laborers to leave by stories that they would be sold and ill-treated, &c. We are glad to see that Mr. Johnson strongly condemns such doings, and so do we, and hope to hear no more of it.