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of law and orders; and yet the prejudices of the community render it impossible for him to procure justice.  The magistrate would claim the right to judge whether the negro testimony was credible; and among the neighbors that would surround him, in many places, he would be bold indeed if he believed it against the word or interest of a white man.  I recently heard a circle of Mississippi men converse on this subject; and their general conclusion was, that they would make no objection to the admission of negro testimony, because "no southern man would believe a nigger, if he had the damned impudence to testify contrary to the statement of a white man."
   I verily believe that in many places a colored man would refuse, from fear of death, to make a complaint against a white man before a State tribunal; if there was no efficient military protection at hand.
   The reason why I think the negro has so little chance for justice at the hands of Mississippians is,