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obedience sobriety and orderly conduct during the election the colored men have been fully able to cope with the whites. Not a single colored man has been reported in a state of intoxication near any of the voting precincts while the polls were kept open. Whether the political adherance of the colored man be regarded right or wrong this right has been exercised by them freely in face of menacing threats of their employers and the intimidation of the Richmond press. The present election has proven that the colored man will neither sell nor barter away his vote either by comprimise or duress. This adherance to what they believed was right has cost many of them their situations; of this class there are now quite a number idle having been discharged for political reasons some have been turned out of employment and refused the small pittiance due them.

With reference to temperance the political excitement during the present month has so completely drawn the attention of the colored