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the simplest & plainest provisions of the Law — only where freedpeople are conserned, I have the honor to request that the papers may be transmitted, through Dist. Hd Qrs., to his Excellency the Governor of the State, with the recommendation that the delinquent Officer may be forthwith removed, and some other, more suitable, just & impartial person, if even a colored man, be appointed in his stead, who will, without fail, see that the protection of the Law is extended to the freedpeople here. Such a course would, in my opinion, be productive of the best possible result in the County, and would certainly on the part of the colored people at least, be hailed with the most unbounded gratitude & joy.

The following are a few of the instances in which Mr Mc Cord has failed to perform his duty

On the first Inst, "Josh Wardlaw", freedman, complained that on the 7th May last he was taken out of his bed at night, stripped, whipped, &, on running off, shot at three times, by three parties whom he declared positively to me he could unhesitatingly swear to, and others whom he did not know. Mr Mc Cord to whom I referred this case afterwards told me that he had not issued any warrant for the arrest of the offenders, because Plaintiff said he could