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means that used to be: - that pride has made them morose. Their hearts are marmorean, and the services of the colored when slaves are forgotten. Today they wish to strike with venomous fangs the poison deep into the vital parts of the North and the poor ignorant African.

The African on his part is at work.- he now is worth from $3 to $5 per month more than when a slave and perhaps a very large class that much more than he was last year. Since I have spoken to them at their meetings on Sabbaths and other days and explained to them their real situation, and dispelled the dream they have been indulging in "confiscation" they are taking hold in earnest and they now think of nothing but education. I never imagined a people like these, brought up in slough, could awake and be so energetic in this particular. I think that "Northern Neck" has been very much slighted as regards help for schools, while other parts of the country where the colored are not so plentiful have been helped. The negroes feel the domineering spirit of the Whites and they know their own liberty - are bound to arrest it - one wave of the hand of the Bureau and they hasten to a man, woman, yes, child, to its call. No power here can stop them, the only trouble is, they are too willing. For instance when the men belonging to George Wm Thompson gang came through the country swindling them. They never asked a question but, to prove their loyalty they let Kingle take a part of their scanty clothing, for a mere peice of brass, supposing as he represented I had told him to do so - that it was all right. No matter what the whites tell them here they will not listen to them. The whites misrepresent my language to them where I have talked to them. This is done however to prejudice the poor uneducated whites against the "dam nigger" to use their own expressions. That I

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