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Meridian Miss. Such a conceivible
upon an thru I never saw. The
house all low, extremely ill built
and no thrift on any side to be
seen. The clothes on the people very
simple, of poor quality and often not
very clean. However every one seem
to be polite. The negroes live
in the product of huts, log houses
set on four sticks or stumps of
trees. The quantity of yellow negroes
the color
is simply astounding and despise
one plays the word can the
loosener of the negro women. If
the talk of the shits can be believed
there is no morality in any negro.
Mississippi upon the whole
is a very simple state. The
climate over to show that where