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his opinion of the negroe's social position and his relationship with the whites. The only change produced is a consciousness that his slaves are now free and that too against his will and to his pecuniary loss. He tacitly acquiesces in this, because he is compelled to by the power of the Union armies. The natural consequence of this state of affairs must be apparent to any one having a knowledge of the human mind. A bitter feeling of hatred is engendered, that lurks silently and dominant in the former slave holder's breast, that will burst forth and make itself felt, (whenever the strong arm of the government is removed), upon the poor and feeble negro himself, although he is the innocent cause of the present state of affairs. Humanity, therefore, prompts one to tell you, that the Government must protect this feeble and innocent element of society, to which it has lately given freedom. If it does not do so, the condition of the colored people of the whole South will inevitably become infinitely worse than it was before the war, and the result will be their complete extermination in a few brief years. The interest of the formerly