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possible save some little of the hard earned profits of his last year's labor, this man has now been forced to incur the superfluous and extravagant expense of, in the first place executing various legal instruments, and in the second place a so very moderate Lawyers fee; etc, etc: and he is still left in suspense whether John P. Patterson (than whom - excepting Dillard - there is no more consummate Knave living) will not, through the further machinations of his case attorney, eventually come out successful, and thus multiply trifold for the freedman, the above described train of evils; for he will then lose not only his rightful property, the entire fruits of the last year's hard labor, and have to pay the younger Patterson, as well as the costs of the court besides, but will in addition, also have been a clear loser to the extent of all that expenses incurred in his endeavor to right himself.
In consequence of all this, I would therefore most respectfully suggest that if admissible, some active measures should be at once taken to secure his rights to the party aggrieved.
John P. Patterson owns in the neighborhood of fifteen hundred acres of land and, he is one of the hardest men, especially on the freedmen, in the County. He treated the hands he had employed last year so shabbily, that he can now hardly get a man to hire.  The freedman, as well as most of the whites even - the poorer class, and those who were loyal during the rebellion especially - are all distrustful of him; they are afraid both of being cheated, and otherwise illtreated, and even injured physically by him. And this man is one of the most loud mouthed about the ungracious being, all of them