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to exclude as incompetent all who from their moral or social condition are supposed to testify to some extent under duress, the application of which rule has made the wife and incompetent witness for the husband. That a change of the law in this respect will shortly take place everywhere I feel confident and yielding to that public sentiment now almost universal, that all exceptions to testimony should go to its credit rather than its competency, I have but little doubt that our Legislature, perhaps at its very next session, will establish this principle, and admit witnesses of any color in all cases whatever.
In regard to any supposed defect in our laws of apprenticeship, I have already had occasion in a letter addressed to you concerning certain Colored children bound to General Remy, to refer to this subject, and I would now repeat what I then said, that as regards the class of children to be found out and the process necessary for the purpose