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Bray found guilty as charged and the Jury assessed his punishment in five years confinement in the penetentiary.  Anyone at all acquainted with the slave code would know at once that Mackey's statement was false as by the law governing the trial and punishment of slaves,  the same could not be sentenced to confinement in the penetentiary, but if convicted of an assault with intent to kill and murder a white man, his punishment would be death, and in Orange's case he was convicted and his sentence was confinement in the penitentiary.  The Judge of the Court and all the members of the bar in attendance on the Court know this statement to be true, and Capt. Mackey's statement to be utterly false and unfounded.
   I know Capt. Mackey, and say that in my opinion he is the most unmitigated liar I ever knew, and this falsehood I am satisfied is founded in malice, while he cursed this community by his presence, he made repeatedly false representations to the federal Military Authorities for the purpose of procuring troops to be sent here doubtless to enable him to execute his tyrannical schemes as provost Marshal. Capt Mackey while here wontly killed Capt. Wirt Smith