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is causing great sensation here, as it must every- where among the lovers of Freedom [underlined 3 times] and Eternal Light [both words underlined 3 times But O, how jubilant of this triumph for them, Oh, said one exrebel this morning to some of the colored people of this Hospital, "Now you see what the yankees have done for you!" "You had better have staid with your old masters, now you'l lay on the dung [?] hill. Now you'll see what is to become you'll do." They are thus bold defiant, and full of venom But this cannot last, some door must open for this people, if not through our President, ^then ^ will deliv erance come from annother quarter [?],

    O, what a trial hour! what a critical

hour is the present one. But Truth cannot die. it must and will out live all this storm And tell William to write her a letter, and also James. Tell Elizabeth to write her alabout where Jimmie and Sammie are. In haste Yours for Universal sufferage [both words underlined 3 times] Laura S. Haviland