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above candidates to make converts to that ticket among the colored people. And the few who are reported to have put their names down as supporters of the above ticket have incurred the bitter hostility of the colored people who are arrayed in the opposite political organization

The Village Barber at this place informed me that on his refuseing to put his name down, all his white customers abandoned him in a body. A colored Carpenter this morning reports his loss of employment for a like reason, and that it has been avowed by certain prominent persons that it was agreed not to employ any member of the "Loyal League"

Also a report is brought to me of the shooting of three colored men by a white man about twelve miles from this place  This affair does not seem to have any connection with the political agitation, and I think