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hair brushes and combs from foursome of them. Instead of committing their depredations after dark as on the Bayside, they take daylight and with out any disguise too. Showing conclusively that it is a preconcerted plan to disarm all the colored people. The majority of the citizens at Modest Town are opposed to such proceedings, but you know they are a very different class of people from what they are in other parts of the country. In my opinion and I have a good opportunity to judge, this gang of men was organized for this purpose of disarming returned colored soldiers, and receives the sanction, at least of many of the citizens who ought to be engaged in better business.  That these returned soldiers have given sufficient cause, or in fact any cause whatever, for such proceedings on the part of the whites I do not believe and as far as I have been able to observe. I know they have not.  I have never discovered any riotus [[?]] among them.  Their behavior is equally as

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Just FYI. If there are more than 2 [[?]]'s instructions say to leave it in transcribe instead of sending it to review. Someone will come behind and pick it up. There were 6 [[?]]. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-24 23:18:29