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to make a complaint against a colored person for a sure conviction to follow. It is said of South Carolina that she has done all that could be asked of her abolished slavery by her own act, allowing allowing equal rights before the law, without regard to caste or color, compels evidence of colored people to be taken in courts & c. After a colored person has been put upon the stand, the district attorney and the Judge are sure to impress upon the Jury that the evidence just taken is Nigger and they must not believe it before white evidence.
A general practice prevails of hiring the Freedpeople and then paying them in due bills and then make no[[strikethrough]]t[[/strikethrough]] effort to pay them until compelled by an Officer of the Bureau to do so. No effort is made of the white planter to keep his stock from running over and destroying the growing crop of the Freedmen, And in case the crop is destroyed and the Freedman requests a disinterested white man to look at it and assess the damage he is always refused. If a colored man and his family have a good little house and have improved the land about it somewhat, he is very soon notified that he muse leave or suffer the consequences of his temerity in remaining, and the poor negro leaves.
If a white man takes a fancy to a colored persons Hogs or Cattle he drives them off. (See half sheet)