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from voting their sentiments, carrying with them their favorite dogmas, " pitching into carpet Baggers, Yankee school [[trains?]], Niggers", &c the Bureau getting its share. These poor miserable creations who have so far compromised their loyalty that they are now and ever should be counted as unworthy of citizenship and ought to be thankful to the magnanimity of the government that their miserable lives were spared, but they are getting worse and worse every day, curse the government the officers of the Bureau the negro. I learn that many of their speakers have urged upon the white people to arm themselves and be prepared to put down negro supremacy. "Julian Mason's speech at King George C.H. at June Court" extermination of 
the colored race with them is the watchword. A man by the name if Chas H Ashton and another by the name of Coackley have been for some time
threatening the colored men, so I have been informed, who work their lands that should they vote the radical ticket they must leave though their crops be not matured and lose all they have made. The colored people are compelled to pay such exorbitant rents for poor lands that

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