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[1] ALS, RPB. No reply from General Schenck has been located. A Washington despatch of February 5 appearing in the New York Herald, February 6, suggests the occasion of Lincoln's telegram: ``The practical feeling of white soldiers towards negroes is seen in the fact that yesterday morning a lot of one hundred and fifty convalescents from Philadelphia, in charge of a guard of ten men, armed at the Soldiers' Rest, and at once showed their antipathy to the colored people by assaulting the contrabands employed about the quarters. . . . The Baltimore papers state that in coming through that city they attacked every colored person coming in their way, and assaulted the police who endeavored to protect them.''