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that into whatever place I go - the street, the shop, the house, the hotel, or the steamboat - I everywhere hear the people talk in a way that indicates, that public sentiment has not come to the attitude in which it can conceive of the negro having any rights at all. Men, who are honorable in their dealings with their white neighbors, will cheat a negro without feeling a single twinge of their honor; to kill a negro the do not deem murder; to debauch a negro woman they do not think fornication; to take property away from a negro they do not consider robbery. The reason of this is simple and manifest: they esteem the negro the property of the white man by natural right; and however much they may confess that the President's proclamation broke up the relation of the individual slaves to their owners, they still have the ingrained feeling that the black people at large belong to the whites at large; and when a black person is found loose, and opportunity serves, the white people