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some of whom are indiscreet & mischievous, I would have no fears, of being able to suppress any demonstration, looking to disturbances of the peace or any clashing of the races, and believe I would ere long bring about a much more favorable state of feeling between them. Nothing of a serious nature has occurred since I came here, even between this foreign element, and the freedmen, calculated to strengthen any apprehensions of a conflict, but by reason of the deeply seated hatred. Cherished toward the race by these young men, and the quiet encouragement and support given it by the citizens residing here. I would not be surprised at any moment to hear of conflict, &c.

The unreliable condition of the civil police department, the absolute timidity of the local residents in connection with the peculiar relations the whites sustain to the Students especially, would

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