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vengance. Munchauson stories are told them of the prowess of this wonderful organization, and with the inclination ignorant people have to believe all things of a supernatural character nothing is now necessary over there but to say Ku Klux and almost anything might be accomplished.

I doubt very much if another vote can be polled by the freedpeople there without troops. It certainly cannot in opposition to the popular sentiment of the white people. There are not 10 freedmen in a hundred as matters now stand there that will dare come forward and exercise his right as a freeman to vote regardless of the feelings and wishes or rather will and dictates of the imperious and lawless class among whom they live.

Union men are almost as completely