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159 ...dray. He spoke bitterly of the Yankees for their greed of plunder, & for their want of a sense of honour. When the South surrendered, they did it in perfect good faith, acknowledging that Fortune had entirely decided against them & determining to submit honestly to the unclearsward or award. But the Yankees would not believe in their good faith , & and had sent into every Southern state a military dictator with an army to oppress and insult the Whites & to keep them in subjection to the Blacks. He had loved his country, & been proud of it: but now he had no country, no home, no prospects. He said the Blacks fought with more desperation than the Yankees. He had been through the whole war, & had had plenty of opportunities for comparing them. He would rather meet three Yankees than two Blacks. The Black was easily wrought up into a state of enthusiasm, & would fight like a fanatic. The Yankee were always calculating chances, & taking care of himself. The West unclear that decided the war; & it should have arbitrated unclear & prevented this fighting. I lost sight of the fallen, but brave-hearted Virginian on the steps of the St. Charles Hotel at New Orleans, to which he was obliging as to guide me on our arrival at that city, He was then on his way to Texas.