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men. In spite of all that I would be glad to believe to the contrary, these courts will persist in doing flagrant injustice to freedmen and northern men, when the other parties are chivalric southerns.

This fact was again plainly demonstrated in a case tried before the present term of the Criminal Court at this place.

A Mr Ewing originally from Pensylvania but keeper of a Livery Stable at this place for some years past, also a dealer in horses, bought in Bourbon Co., Ky. in March 1866, a brown mare, five years old, brought her to this place, and sold her in April, fallowing, to Monroe Henderson a colored man. About a month after, an ex rebel soldier claimed the mare, replevied her and got her into his possession, claiming that she had been taken from him in 1863. In the mean time and previous to the trial Mr Ewing went to Ky, and got depositions giving a clear and indisputable history of the mare, and showing that she was owned in Ky, from the time she was