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are thinking, and biding their time when the bulwark of american liberty is put up before them—the ballot=box—when they will arrest their right in a bloodless way. They are determined to have Religious and Political right alike with the whites. We know that corruption such as has had sway throughout the entire South for the past years, has been the cause of the removal of all those high incentives to honor and civilization that is pure and good, and patriotic and which is the only sure guarantees of safty [[safety]] to these american states. They know the South went willingly but blindly into a strife, which alas thought to forever enthrall them as slaves, but that set them free, They know a vast majority would now ruin this country had they the power. They hear them curse the Government — the entire north, anything but rampant unions doctrines, thus showing unionism under any terms that might be offered is distasteful in the extreme. This all bear upon the condition of both races. It is the venom of the serpant [[serpent]]— Rebellion.
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