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who has been turned out would not do, in face of the President of the United States.
There are a few whites in my Division who have always been loyal earnestly at work disabusing the minds of the negroes of such false misrepresentations and were it not for these few, loyal men, strife might arise of a severe character.  There are a few men who were fighting Secessionists during the war who have connected themselves with the Republican Clubs and accept the issue of the war doing an immense deal of good, much to the chagrin of the great class of whites who are as bitter against the President, the Congress and the entire interests of the plan of reconstruction policy as they possibly can be.  The Rebel has not died in them, and they stand every one of them perjured men after taking the amnesty oath and the oath required before registration.  
The negroes however go on in a quiet, peaceful course, making no disturbances.  They meet in bodies at different points of the Division and hold their Union Republican Club meetings, and so far no disturbances have occurred on their part although I have been informed that they have been threatened by the whites of being disturbed, and that they are working a course that will end with bullets through them.
The whites has charged them with forming military companies and drilling in secret &c which I know to be false.  And the leading Secessionists have charged me as having encouraged the colored people
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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-17 14:21:19 corrected a few minor typos