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The long series of domestic broils and misgovernments that has existed before the late war in the Southern States and particularly in Virginia, they cannot nor will not admit so corrupted and depraved the great mass of both Whites & Blacks, as to render patriotism a by=word and honor a Just. They see not that those who arrayed themselves against the trampled the Flag and the Constitution of the country under foot committed any crime. Nay: they brag over it and gnash their teeth with resentment, because they lost. They cannot tolerate anything opposing them in this disloyal wish. The old Flag is an eye=sore. They never unfurl it at any public place nor meeting they hold. 

Northern men opposed to conservation are proscribed, continually insulted and threatened with violence. Also are native Virginians the negro, ("poor ignorant devil.") they work assiduously to trample under foot, by cheating him, deceiving him, beating him, and sometimes
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