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race. With the more intelligent and reflecting classes of whites it is evident that they are awakening to the fact that the colored people of this country are entitled to more favorable consideration than they received under the old regime - More interest is being shown in advancing them in intelligence &c and in class of men, could be more ardent and industrious in a quiet way than are the politicians in instructing these people how to exercise the right of suffrage - and it is truly commendable in these high-toned chiv-alrous gentlemen, to forget so soon their long cherished spirit of contemptuous superiority towards the colored race — their solicitude for the poor ignorant freedmen is becoming in some cases absolutely painful, and they no doubt in cases of extreme destitution or distress would contribute something which they could not use to advantage themselves — I am pleased to be able to opine you that in my opinion these facts indicate that these white people are be-coming rapidly reconstructed under the -

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