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hostile land, the nearest house (a colored family) a half mile off.
She writes me as she went to meeting Sunday with her colored people they were met by numbers of white people who laughed & made ugly remarks. 
As sure as Virginia is admitted to the Union & the Military is withdrawn we shall not be allowed to stay if we teach the colored people their rights & any obstacle to the cheating & plunder of them by the despotic land-masters who mean to grind them to the dust as far as they have the power. 
For this reason I regret