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employment, in case they did not vote as they wished them to do. But the Freedmen disregarded all such appliances, and quietly cast their votes as before stated. Since the election many have been discharged, and many more are threatened with discharge, for this cause. A general disposition is evinced on the part of the White employees, to punish the Freedmen for this act, by dicharge, turning out of the Houses rented by them, &c. I am glad to state however; that all the Whites, do not unite in this policy. But the Freedmen are undergoing a severe trial, in consequence of having voted according, as I believe, to the dictates of their own consciences. The have, since the election, continued quietly, industriously, & faithfully, in the performance of their several duties & obligations.
The same treatment, in some instances, has has been meted out to poor laboring White men by their more wealthy employers, and for the same causes.
       
Never, since the close of the war, has the spirit of the disloyalty, been so apparent, as it is, at the present time, This is to be attributed