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names of witnesses, and requested that they be summoned to go before the Grand Jury, with which request he promised to comply. The court adjourned, however, and the Grand Jury were discharged, and the man Neale was released from his bonds, without being indicted, or the case being noticed in any manner whatever. George Worrell, one of the freedmen assaulted, states to me, that he was told by one of the magistrates, that if he was wanted he would be summoned, which circumstance I consider to have an effort to keep the freedmen away from the Court, and prevent the indictment of Neale. I also informed a member of the Grand Jury, who consulted me on the subject, of all the circumstances relative to the case, and brought the matter to the notice of the Court and Solicitor at different times, but no effort was made to bring the two colored men before the Grand Jury. I also told the two freedmen, at the time I recieved their complaint, not to fail to be present at court, as justice to them and their race required it. These circumstances indicate, with some degree of certainty, that the civil authorities, and citizens generally, are unwilling that a black man should testify against a white man and that the negro does not receive justice at the hands of the civil authorities.
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