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by all, that he is free. He cannot testify in the Courts of any Southern State, neither can he have the benefit of the testimony of his own collor and race. Instead of being unjust, it is a wise and humane procedure: in my opinion. My own experience for the last four or five years, has satisfied me, that there is little confidence to or placed in the action & decisions of those white men that brought on this war, anything that is said to the contrary now.

It is the way, to place both on equal footing provided your Commissioner is an unbiased man, who is not controlled by prejudice against race or collor: but if he is the black man, cannot get justice, not speaking of the advantage of education on the part of the white man

The unfeeling conduct of the South towards the black man is too manifest to any unbiased mind to admit of doubt. There is a case in point: One of the candidates for the Legislature, an unflinching Union man from the very first, who was "imprisoned for his opinion, and public expression of the same; said in a speach [[speech]] in this County that, It may become necessary to allow negro testimony in some cases even for the protection of the white man." & what was the result? Why, he was defeated by over 200 majority. I know this to be so, for I tryed [[tried]] myself to reason with these hard headed