The same man informed me that the impression widely prevails that Congress is about to divide out the lands, and that this impression is given out by Federal soldiers at the nearest military station.

It cannot be disguised that in spite of the most earnest efforts of their old master to conciliate and satisfy them, the estrangement between races increases in its extent and bitterness.

Nearly all the Negro men are armed with repeaters, and many of them carry them openly, day and night." The relations between the races were better, however, than conditions seemed to indicate.

The whites of the Black Belt were better disposed toward the Negroes than were those of the white districts.

It was in the towns and villages that most of the race conflicts occurred.