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is left to the civil authority to administer Justice Equally to the White and Black people of this portion (and I fear many other locations) of the Country Left to a people who are Born and Educated to look upon the negro as a connecting link between the White Man and Baboon or Orang-out-tang - a people who are Educated and Taught to consider the Black Man an inferior being equal only to a mule or an ox. What mercy or justice need the Black Man expect in a controversy with a white man - in the hands of a people who deny him all rights of equality with, the White Man would even deny him his liberty given him by his God and creator, I regret to Say that in my opinion Such is the case, Even now I'm creditably informed that in the Southern part of this county near Livingston the Negroes are all compelled to have passes and if any one is caught out without one (a pass) he is either assaulted and beaten or put in jail, The White Citizens have regular patrols and threaten the negroes that if they are caught out they will be shot. In our sense of the word the colored man is held in bondage through fear of the late master as much as were