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“…We get up at four oclock in the morning and feed the horses, hogs and milk by breakfast. After breakfast we go to our regular work on the farm…I promised to write to…a host of others around Eufaula… I have some prettie hot times with the rads, they call me that little Johnnie; the cant see to save their lives how I can believe human slavery to be right. They would like to have the Negroes free and have their vote in the coming Presidential election and they would like to have them colonized in some convenient corner where they could huddle them together without much trouble and secure their votes are every election. They are in a tight and they know it. I don’t believe there are a thousand men in the Republican Party who really loves the Negro, but he will condescend to hug and kiss him for his vote and that is their love for poor darkie…” As a “Johnny Reb” transplanted to the north, three years after the Civil War, Stearns exhibited typical racist attitudes, but his cynical assessment of “rad” (Radical Republican) sympathy for African-Americans may not have been entirely off the mark.