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they receiving their pay readily for the labor they perform. If the Whites did not pay them promptly, they could not secure the service of the Freedmen, for they will not work for any person who does not pay them promptly, nor will they suffer any of their friends to be deceived in like manner.

The State of Feeling existing between the Whites and the Freedmen is not good, a general feeling of distrust existing between them. The late election has seemed to increase this feeling and there is no confidence between the Freedmen and the Whites. In the County of Nansemond, there was One thousand and Seventy Six votes polled by the Freedmen, and of that number not one single vote was polled for the candidate of the White people, but they all voted as a unit for their own candidate, which fact has had a tendency to increase the prejudices of the Whites against them.

The Colored people however feel satisfied that with all the prejudices against them from their former owners, that the Government will sustain them in all their rights and priviledges, and eventually, from force of necessity, the Whites will respect them, and be willing for them to enjoy all their rights without that jealous fear and distrust which is now shown to all Colored people.

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