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untiring in his efforts and has to the best of his belief made a perfect record of the Same.

He has also taken a complete census of the colored people of the several Counties consisting his Division which has been a very laborious task.

'Tis in this Division thus the disunion Sentiments of the Citizens are carried out to the full extent of their power. On every occasion the full measures of the barberous effects of Slavery are heaped upon the colored man, and all the advantage taken of his ignorance, to grind him down to poverty and make him dependant upon their wills.

Opposed to every effort to improve the condition of the colored man physically or mentally, they openly and boldly assert that to them is a crime, because