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colored males and poor white females, in this district, is most shocking. Adultery is here hardly regarded as a crime. There are numerous white women in this County, who have both colored and white illegitimate children - and a truly virtuous colored woman is a rare exception. As a result, virulent venerial diseases exist to an alarming extent; not only amongs the colored people, but likewise amongst the white males, to and from whom it is alternately communicated and re-received, by the colored females. Perhaps the worst feature in all this is, that the truth being publicly known of a white man being thus implicated does not in the least prevent his being received in any social, white circle, or even debar him from addressing any one of its female members: nor are such white women as may have colored offspring wholly discountenanced. If this be not amalgamation, it bears a striking resemblance to it.

For this dreadful state of affairs, in as far as the colored people, particularly are concerned, the whites are mainly, it might be said soly responsible. It is the result of the former's late servile and degraded condition. They have been bred to it, and as a natural consequence, the most of them, I feel persuaded, really believe that no harm can exist in such a course. With such, habit has become almost second nature. Still, it must be admitted, this vice seems to have grown worser since with the colored race, since they have been freed. The reasons for this misfortune are manifold. The following are a few of them.

First, then — because the very young girls, who, formerly were kept in, under a certain age, to guard against their being spoiled as good 

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