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the whites are bidding high for the colored vote by appealing to the masters former care of the slave and by claiming that the Government of the United States emancipated them only to fill the ranks of the armies after they had been depleted by the powers of the Confederates; they claim that Virginia by its own act conferred civil rights upon the freedman an bring forward the resolution passed by Congress at the commencement of the war, that the war was not waged for the abolition of slavery.
There is great need that respectable northern men should  come here and address the freedpeople upon the important questions of the day; without this, I am of the opinion that the colored voote will be greatly influenced by those who are themselves disfranchised and thus the object for which the freedmen were enfranchised will be defeated.
At the mass meeting above mention the greatest harmony and good order prevailed; many of the queries propounded by the freedmen shared that they had a proper appreciation of the questions.