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place since my report for January. A large temperance meeting will be held on the 8th proximo at Coalfield Chesterfield Co. which I shall attend. The colored people in that locality are much depressed by their employers who have charge of several colleries there out of the several hundred colored men employed at these works hardly a single person received a cent of money for their services. Their pay consists of tickets issued by the several companies and redeemable only at their stores where most exorbitant prices are charged for every article purchased. In conclusion I will state that there seems to be no abatement in the hostility of the whites toward colored people; since the commencement of the recent excitement in Washington, disloyalty seems to be on the rampage, threats imprications and open boasts of the utter annihilation of the "Yankee and Nigger" whenever an opportunity presents itself has been

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