Q. What chance is there of the planter securing white labor to carry on these plantations? --A. There is such a small proportion of white labor in the South that it would be difficult for him to find them, and the tide of foreign immigration is just beginning to be turned in that direction. There has been a prejudice against white emigrants going to the South, on account of going among the negroes. Q. Do you think that is diminishing? --A. Diminishing yearly. Q. You mean that immigration from Europe is being employed on the plantations? --A. Not exactly upon the large cotton plantations, but the smaller plantations are now being converted into farms. For instance, there has been a large immigration of European emigrants into that section of the country between Little Rock and Fort Smith. Q. Do they, upon these farm or small plantations being converted into farms, work in companionship with the negro laborer? --A. No; they generally buy the land and work it themselves; they may hire a negro and work with him; they are laborers themselves. Q. Is there any tendency among the white and colored laborers of any class to work in companionship, or to fraternize at all in labor? --A. I cannot say that there is. A white man would not take a negro in as a partner to work with him in the field. Q. And will a white man find any difficulty in hiring another white man and negro to work together side by side in the field? --A. No, sir; I have them myself working side by side. Q. There is no prejudice of that kind? --A. None at all. Q. No white man inquires whether he can work by himself or is to work in company with a negro? Do they exhibit any reluctance to work in company with the negro? --A. The class of white people that work in our country for wages comes from Ohio, and Missouri, and Indiana, and that section of country, and I find there is some prejudice among that class of people sometimes, but still there are instances--as I say, I have men from Indiana now myself hired working right in a gang with negroes. Q. There is no strong tendency in that way, I suppose? --A. No strong tendency in that way. 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.