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by their actions.

There is only one party - politically speaking - in Eastern Texas and that is the one composed of the late rebel element which opposes all laws made by Congress looking to a reconstruction of the state, and they (the party) will resort to any means either fair or foul to defeat their accomplishment.

People there are intolerant of any expression of opinion differing from their own and in many counties it would only be at the imminent risk of his life that any man would attempt to organize a republican association or any other organization having in view the success of a party favoring the reconstruction laws of Congress and equal political and civil rights for the freedpeople.

While I would be the last one to advocate any measure to be used to control the vote