The Daily Phoenix

SEGREGATION.-Strange ideas float through the minds of some of the freedmen and women hereabouts. We had a conversation with a stout colored woman, at present in our employ--one, too, of the very best that we have met with, and she says that the understanding among the black folks all through the country is, that the whites and the blacks are to be forced to marry; the black men to marry our white women, and the white men the black women. "I think," said she, "that Jake will be very much disappointed, as he expected long 'fore this to have been married to a white lady." Jake had been her husband, and had actually abandoned her with the view of marrying a white woman. It seems, from what we could learn, that wags, both Northern and Southern, had been playing off their jokes upon the more gullible of the black people, and the latter, without questioning, accepted the joke as Gospel. The fact is, the general intermarriage of the whites and blacks is, to some extent, believed by the more intelligent class of colored people about town. We heard an intelligent colored woman say that as it was now lawful for whites and blacks to marry, she would marry a white man, as she never "cared much about negroes anyway."

[Shreveport (La.) News]