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There is not the slightest doubt but that the Whites with but few favorable exceptions are opposed to negro suffrage. The negroes are very zealous, and using every means in their power to accomplish their right of suffrage. This on the part of the Whites and this on the part of the Colored creates a seperation, social, religiously and politically, proscription consequently arises.— The whites seeking to drive the colored into measures incompatible to their desires, as also the purport of the re-construction acts passed by Congress. 

Proscription is very prevalent. This is the whole strength and power of Rebels. They know this from their vial of wrath upon the heads of of all Whites who seek to truly live up to the principles of true Republicanism and desire a peaceful and immediate reconstruction of this State. It is my belief, and I am sure, that could these leading men procure labor other than the colored they would do so provided such labor could be controlled by them politically,— and that politically— the against the present form of Government of the United States. 

The colored are as a unit almost sustain the laws of Congress. They place very little