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that having attempted to search Defendant's house, be refused to allow him to, unless he got authority from the "Yankees".  This was made the key note, by Mr Dillard, for a bitter tirade against the "Yankees", and a dissertation about the wrongs and oppressions of the Southern people.  Among other things, he asked the Witness if he did not know that he could have got a search warrant from any Justice of the Peace.  Said he, "You, surely, were not scared by the Yankee".  If this poor Negro was too ignorant to know anything" - Dillard was defending the freedman - "you certainly knew that there existed a better authority than that of any Y a n k e e" - hissed out with a most contemptuous, derisive and obnoxious emphasis.  He continued - "I say, you knew there was a better authority than any Yankee Authority - Viz. - Virginia authority - the authority of a Justice of the Peace; why didn't you go to him?"  By and by, in endeavoring to have certain testimony which had been brought forward by the Attorney for the Commonwealth, excluded, he said, that, "Before long we may have Military Law in force here; but, thank God! as yet we have not; then let us carry out as we should, the laws we have, and not such as others think we ought to have".  At another point, speaking of the freedman under trial, he said, "This is a poor ignorant Negro, who has been set free through no fault of his".  And, subsequently, in his Argument, referring to the freedmen at large, he proclaimed, in vehement and defiant tones - "They were unjustly wrested from us by the strong hand of oppression!"  And again - "Still it must be acknowledged, to their credit, that though left destitute; & although ever since they surrender there have been people here" (the "Yankees", or persons in the Military Service