There are no white laborers from the South proper; at least the number we can hire for wages is so small that it is not sufficient to call it a class.
Q.In the Southern States proper about two thirds of the population is white, is it not?
-- A.

I do not recollect.

According to the census returns I think there are about seven millions of negroes.

The census would give the exact statement.
Q.Not far from two thirds of the population, I think, is white.

In the Gulf States proper at least one half the population must be white.