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but instead of trying him for a breach of the peace of [[strikethrough]] the peace [[/strikethrough]] the account was brought forward. and without a single witness for the Freedman. Judgement was rendered against the Plaintif and five dollars costs, when Judgement should have been rendered against the defendant. While this mock [[strikethrough]] trial [[/strikethrough]] trial was going on the Magistrate John R Shanklin and the Constable James M. McCoy permitted Rosser, George Carper and David R. Staley to exhibit revolvers and threaten the life of the Freedman. and the witness he had summoned to testify as to the Language used in their presence by Rosser toward him, and finally the Constable shirked his duty and the Freedman was beaten on his way home with a stick by one or more of the parties. I trust Sir. you will make an example of such persons as I have described in this letter. I say it boldly and fearlessly that but few freedmen get justice at the hands of those aristocratics, or before the Civil [[strikethrough]] Court [[/strikethrough]] Criminal Courts. The Freedmans Bureau is a wise and benign institution if properly managed, and all those persons who are so lost to feeling and humanity, since they can no longer drive them like beasts of burden, should be made feel the waight of the strong arm of Military Law.

If good trustworthy local men could be found to attend to this business, [[it]] would save much time, trouble, and expense,

Please answer my letter, for the parties for whose benefit I have wrote this letter, wish to know the decision as soon as possible.

I am Kind Sir
Your Obedient Servant
William. S. Barger

P.S. said. Wm Jackson is an humble }
great industrious man some 40 years }
of age, and single in life }

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