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to be their interest. The Governor, legislature, to are of course opposed to it. A large party in the North thinks it a tremendous engine of oppression. It receives but little support from the National Government. The only friend it has in the world is the poor negro, who is without wealth and political power.
The papers of the South harp about the Bureau - its abuses and assumptions of power. The people of the South are determined to get rid of it, and are not particular as to the means adopted to gain their end. This is the whole secret of the insurrection stories.

[[left margin]] What the Colored folks think of the matter [[/left margin]]

The following resolutions, adopted at a colored meeting at this place, cover the whole ground and show how the colored people feel about what is being done for them; they take the true position if they are freemen, and state the disagreeable fact that they are the working men of the south, and only ask that justice be done them.