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of the City authorities was long since called to the necessity of furnishing additional accommodations, but thus far, though, as they allege, financial Embarrassment they have failed to take any measures
with that view, and the prospect is, that until the Completion of Reconstruction, the aid of the Bureau will have to be furnished to a limited Extent in relief of destitution in this city, and will also be required although to a less extent, in Portsmouth and the County at large.
The feeling of the great mass of the Whites towards the Colored people has by no means improved since my last report, owing to political Excitement Growing out of the bestowal of the Right of Suffrage upon the Freedpeople, on the one hand, and the disenfranchisement of certain White people on the other, In many instances a spirit of petty oppression is manifested which is calculated to render the situation of the Freedmen unpleasant. And to foster a general Spirit of distrust, which is equally detrimental to the interests of both classes, There Seems to be a desire upon the part of many of the Whites to keep the Colored man as poor and dependent as possible, that they may be able to say

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