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of what they termed their property.

Genls Steedman and Fullerton who recently passed through this town on their Southern tour of inspection, gave their testimony after an interview with forty southerners, who waited upon them at, the Farish House, and not from parties most interested - the colered people themselves.

Every effort on our part - by education, by, industrial pursuits, or by, owning property, to lift ourselves from a slavish condition and become self-dependent, is frowned down and discouraged, on every hand by our employers whose displeasure for the sake of our, families, we cannot afford to incur.  The citizens generally and among them some of the most influential men and women in the community are in the constant practice of uttering threats as to what they will do when the troops shall have left, the town to avenge themselves upon the negros for taking sides with the damned Yankees.

Sensible that we can not be safe among these people whose predjudice and hatred towards us have been augmented a thousand fold in consequence of our, loyalty to the  

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