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ma-ore;ujiU‘ McCJuJluit is tleeuil, we will Intvotrouble and division.” Jiut i have no doubt but a majority of the boutm-rn ate would gladly return to their ally-one K'ai,lt;!0 011 being satisfied ilmt ctmfisca*. tion and emancipation Woll|j „(.t i„.;ats 's^d 0,1 by the I'udetul Uuv’t. Another error north is that there it supped that slaveholders are the only ones who oppose emancipation. It is a great er-ber ror; I Imvu found the iiou-slavclwMing itid class by far the most bitter in npposiii.ni to it. IruethcJ do tint so bitterly oppose emancipation itself pr.vided the freed negro is removed by Gov’t. Hut they all, all I ever spoken vith oil the subject utterly revolt at tlio idea of the slaves being freed and left in their midst. or f ^ *» difficult fur a northern person never here to conceive the disgust and abhor* s enee with which they view the negro pvl-jc « of the adia’tiy.i), and I do not believe ^ it will ever work while the people retain jmj ll,eir opinions on it. Some may think , lNy ill obaiiK*; what folly, to auppos i a people with every prejudice, every fading, and * life education to MBlaiu their convictions that they are right and we wrong ; that millions »ra roing to change as by rasgie. TkifcgcAeraiioii will not aeo the change. Tlio policy of 1this administration has. been such uufor-® llunatelv as to ■ furimli tlm r.riuinfii10
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Stevens Point Wisconsin Pinery
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Nov 10, 1864
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