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murdering him. Many now advocate the doctrine that he has no soul. That is, are brutes. They however, as far as example is concerned, set one up that they have no hesitation in hatching half=breeds (ie) half brute and half human. Still claiming that they are their best friends. How utterly inconsistant is all this and how surely they are urging on "the war of race," harped upon some time since. They try to sound it North that the White Republicans advocate (headed by Congress) social equality. I am perhaps as well acquainted with White Republicans and colored republicans as any man in Virginia. I have never yet heard one of their color advocate such doctrines. Nay! I have heard to the contrary, and that unanimous. Social equality is upon the other foot.—to prove it—see half=breads=arms of nearly every colored woman from 14 years to 50 years. of age

On the other hand, the colored under all the continual piled and heaped upon them move along hardly ever disturbing the peace nor business of any one. They however, 
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