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Withdrawn the Bureau which now is the counsellor & protector of the Freedmen and it would not be long before his condition would be as deplorable, if not more so, then when he was in Slavery.

It cannot be successfully concealed that there is still cherished a most bitter feeling against the colored man on the part of his old masters, and as they have no other means or source through which to vent their spleen against the Federal Gov't the presumption naturally arises that were the old slave owners at liberty to carry out their inclinations, the colored man (in service of the white mans hatred of the Government and the negro) would have a serious time of it- This is evident from the enthusiasm at the nomination of