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bribery.  I have no hope of justice.
     
But it may seem incredible to your honor that any set of men can be found even in the corrupt South that will be guilty of such enormities as I charge upon the people of this county - courts and juries.  I will endeavor to give a few of the reasons and facts, which I trust will be conclusive to your mind.
      
Myself and family were the only Northern people in the county to our knowledge, until since the fall of Richmond- and though I returned four "Yankee deserters" to "Castle Thunder" by a secret understanding with them- and thereby avoided arrest just then - yet my assisting two Yankee prisoners to escape from the "confederates" afterward - the desertion of our son by our secret approval - my constant refusal to take "Confederate" money, after it became depreciated, because I knew it would soon become worthless- and to this the fact that myself and family wished the negros to be educated- and many smaller circumstances looking the same way- and I trust you will not find it difficult to credit my whole story and give us relief. Hear a fact, kind sir - some more than one year ago. we permitted a family of colored people to live in our kitchen. for they had no home - some of them wanted to learn to read and a little girl of ours was disposed to teach them- and did. This was found out and we were threatened with entire destruction, and had to give

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