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- the object of their insults, and, at their option an unwilling sacrifice to their basest passions. Polly has not a hundred dollars in the world, nor has any of her colored friends, and the only way she can get out of jail is to pay her fine by hauling dirt in a wheelbarrow on the streets of this City.

Even if the charge had been proved against her the very idea of applying to a people who have just emerged from Slavery, laws that are worded with great technicality for the government of refined and educated people is prepesterous. The present laws are not applicable to colored people at the present time and yet no discrimination is made between the lettered white and the plantation negro.

By a reference to the Ala. State Reports it will be seen that the Supreme Court has repeatedly decided that adultery or fornication