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precincts in this Sub. Dist there is not a white man who is willing to give the freed people their rights or even tell them how to proceed in order to get them. In other localities there are a few white men, who want the Freed people to have their rights but are afraid to give them any advise or assistance. It is, however, not altogether as bad now as it has been heretofore. 

Feeling between the Races,
Here is a somewhat prudent class of whites who do not express as much animosity against the Blacks. as heretofore reported, but, in reality, the chronic prejudices and bitter feelings of most of them are unchanged, this class of the whites are trying to induce the freedmen to believe that they are their best friends, and that they can and will do more for them than anybody else, if they will only vote with the Democratic party in the coming Presidential Election. There is an other class of Whites who were known as "Ku Kluxers" who are resorting to every species of lying and intimidation which they think will keep the Freedmen away from the Polls. Several Freedmen have reported to me, that their lives were threatened by these Demons (in human form) in case they dared go to the Polls. Notwithstanding all this, I am satisfied that a very large majority of the Freedmen will proove themselves to be worthy of the great wrights with which they have been entrusted.

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