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Finding.

This case divides naturally into two parts or charges.

The first is for Assault and Battery upon Daniel Bagley (Freedman.)  To this charge the Defendant now pleads guilty but that it was done without criminal intent and in discharge of duty as Master of the Apprentice.

The Apprentice Laws are intended for the good of the Apprentice and not made in the interest of the Master.  They are always enacted and applied to secure homes, protection and guardianship for Orphans or Abandoned Children, to secure proper training, education and moral instruction and not to secure valuable labor for the Master and place it under legal control for his profit.  That is Slavery or Peonage the worst form of Slavery.  This Indenture then was not founded in Justice, Right or Law.  It was to defraud a freedman who did not appreciate his own rights or interests.  To accomplish this all the influence which Richardson obtained by having had Dan under him as a Slave was used, also, the respect [[underlined]] Dan [[/underlined]] had for Richardsons superior knowledge of laws and customs.  By these means and the false statements that Dan must have a guardian and could not draw wages until he was twenty one Dan was overawed but still did not agree to stay and was whipped by Richardson to compel his consent.

The victim's (Dan) own statement which is unimpeached proves this and the apt illustration used by him, that if he whipped the table and told it to speak and it did not and he whipped it