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of conservative measures, and that many of the militia would blush at the recital of the outrages committed by some of the numbers.

We have two parties here; one largely in the majority in favor of allowing the negro nothing, compelling him to work in his old position as a slave, doing all they can to thwart the efforts of the National Government, blatant, "overpowered but not conquered" rebels. This party controlled the legislature, and passed the Freedmen Bill only under the pressure of the President's telegram; refused to ratify the constitutional amendment; adopted a resolution saying that the Federal Government had no right to collect the unpaid direct tax of the last four years, as they were under a foreign government; passed a resolution making each member a collecting agent to raise funds for the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead at the State capitol, and another asking for the release of Jefferson Davis; passed a bill exempting all wounded Confederate soldiers from the provisions of the tax-law of the state, while a wounded Federal soldier is taxed the full amount.