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[[preprinted]] War Department,
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE OF SOLICITORS, 207 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C. [[blank line]] 186 . [[/preprinted]]

county, & how little chance there is for obtaining justice.

He proved the trade & his continued presence in this District as completely as any man could be expected to do. His conduct in paying back the money showed his honesty. His sale of the horse to his neighbor who, he knew, crossed the Navy Yard bridge & stood in market daily, where he would be detected instantly, is the highest proof of entire want of guilty knowledge — His entire conduct ^[[insertion]] as detailed by the prosecution [[/insertion]] can only be accounted for on the hypothesis of innocence — It was evident to me that the judges gave no credence, & paid no attention to the colored witnesses. I can only express by belief, that there was a determination, on the part of the Court, not, maybe, so much to convict the prisoner as to disbelieve the testimony of colored witnesses