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The Western troops of Sherman, it appears, do not fraternize with the negro soldiers. This is the statement of one of their own correspondents, and the report agrees with what we had-heard of the talk of the men in Savannah. The West has never been thoroughly impregnated with the Puritan spirit. Those representatives in Congress from that section most conspicuous for abolition sentiments are probably from New England districts, like the Western Reserve of Ohio, and do not fairly reflect the spirit of the people at large, who have some freshness and individuality of character, and have never been able to understand that this continent was made entirely for Africans. We shall not be surprised if the West has something yet to say to New England upon that subject.

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