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The feeling of disloyalty is as strong here now as it was during the war, but they cannot show it as they did then; and with regard to the freedmen there is every disposition on their part to make them odious.
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Sumner observes that disloyalty persists in the South, particularly towards freedmen, despite being less overt than during the war.
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