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Soldiers, and some loyal citizens who volunteered, men obliged to remain there during Thursday and Friday nights. The origin and result of the riot may be summed up briefly as follows: 

The remote cause was the feeling of bitterness which has always existed between the two classes

The minor affrays which occurred daily, especially between the police & colored soldiers.

The general tone of [[strikethrough]] the [[strikethrough]] certain city papers, which in articles that have appeared almost daily, have councilled the low whites to open hostilities with the blacks.

The immediate cause was the collision heretofore spoken of between a few policemen and negroes on the evening of the 30 of April in which both parties may be equally culpable, followed on the evening of the 1st May by another collision of a more serious nature and subsequently by an indiscriminate attack upon innofensive  colored men and women.

Three negro churches were burned also [[strikethrough]] eight [strikethrough]] (8) School houses, Five (5) of which belonged to the United States Government, and about fifty (50) private dwellings, owned occupied, or inhabited by freedmen as homes and in which they had all their personal property, scanty though it be, yet valuable to them and in many instances containing the