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rights, except that of suffrage, that if they would learn to read, that this right would be given them. I hope this will meet with your approbation.

I am sometimes disheartened and always disgusted at the sentiment of the great majority of the whites towards the freedmen and the government. Last Court day an apparently well authenticated rumor came here that congress had passed the Civil rights bill over the veto, and had resolved to impeach the president, and that he had called ten thousand troops to Washington to protect himself. This was [[strikethrough]] swallowed [[/strikethrough]] believed by the drunken crowd, and they were wild with joy over it. I was repeatedly asked, which side I intended to take, and assured that "Johnson" could get plenty of men to put down the radicals with, etc. etc. I reported to you a short time since, that a white man and negro had informed me that a party of men had ordered them to

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