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a new. If I have not exactly come up to the regulations in making up and forwarded my reports I ask to be excused on the simple ground that I had and have too many children to return to their mothers. Whenever you doubt my efficiency an inquiry amongst the coloured population will put you right. Altho now ready to proceed to extend relief I feel it incumbent on me to ask information on the following points. 1st can I proceed to attach and sell property to satisfy a judgement rendered by me that the parties dare not appeal from, with any hope of success. 2ly, can I arrest and confine where it is clearly just to do so, and be supported. I have no fears for myself, or of my own judgement,- but fear a change of policy at your Hd Qtrs that might embarrass me here. This community is as perfect a Barometer as any I know of. I can see the agitation, but cannot always guess the cause, quiet they are not, and content they never will be. When hard pressed I asked why they dont appeal from some of my rulings. They answer that they are afraid they may be pronounced disloyal, but I know they do not think any such thing. Very shame, growing out of the baseness of their case deters them, and nothing else. I am absolutely afraid to attempt to explain how far Chief Justice Wiseman has sunk the negro below what he was even when a