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The state of feeling between the races seems to grow more and more intolerable, and the greatest inconsistency is shown by the rebels in their actions and speech to and toward the freed people; The causes of this bitterness is attributable solely to the political situation and the issues arising under it, and the feeling instead of being now confined among the lower classes, seems to pervade the whole rebel community as if it were leavened with it. The freed people have however as yet, refrained from any actions that would tend to create or extend this 
feeling; but there is a growing feeling 
among them, that they are not secure in their rights at the hands of the civil
authorities as at present situated, and I 
fear that should any extraordinary excitement occur, that they might take the law into their own hands under the impression that it was necessary for their own protection; They generally know their union friends, and in the rural districts, place great reliance upon them, but as the rebels fill all the offices, they think they are to a certain extent under their control, and feel anxious