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had already been instituted designed to prevent the execution of the sentence. The plan of counsel was to remove the negro from the control of State authority by writ of habeas corpus issued from the U.S. District Court; and Judge Busteed then, I think, at Huntsville, had been written to upon the matter. I therefore thought it best to await the issue of  these proceedings before consulting you
upon the subject - the counsel having furthermore advised me that, is an eternity, it was intended to call upon the Bureau for aid in obtaining such interference as might be necessary.

It is, perhaps, proper for me to state here that I do not think the facts in this case were accurately stated in the paragraph in the "Nationalist" mentioned by Mr. Kinsman. There is I believe, no decision of the Supreme Court of Alabama declaring the "Civil Rights Bill" unconstitutional. The decision to which the "Nationalist" most probably refers was rendered in the