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respect. The "lazy, drunken Niggers" so often heard of have disappeared, and the "white gentlemen" have more than filled up the vacuum. 

On the occasion of decorating the graves of the confederate dead in Winchester, on the 6th June a scene of drunkenness and riot presented itself throughout the day, which more than equaled the puny efforts (compared therewith) of the whole colored population of the County for the last twelve months - The sun went down on that day, remarkable only for swearing, fighting, drinking, shouting and horse-racing, and had the colored people indulged in a like manner, on a similar occasion, on the Union dead, the County Jail could not contain their numbers. 

I am sorry to report that outrages on the colored people have been of more frequent occurrence within the past quarter than formerly and that Justice is discriminating in favor of the white man, and I regret to state that in such cases, where appeal is taken is the Military Commissioner, they do not earn the attention which they seem to demand. 

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