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to in the complaint - "this complainant" (not the freedman Arron Turner, said to have been threatened, but Mrs Woods, against whom it is not claimed that any threat was made) "is afraid that the said Polly Smithers will do her some private injury, and therefore prays that she may be required to give surety to keep the peace towards her" - and further, "she requires such surety merely for the preservation of her person and property from injury"

The proceedings in this case are of such an anomalous character as to admit of but two bare inferences in the premises - to wit - either that gross ignorance (which is the most charitable construction that could possibly be put on it) or an inordinate desire to accommodate a favored party (which is the most plausible deduction) dictated, what I suppose will have to be called the whole judicial course. - If it be the first, there is no accountability for an error of judgment - If it be the second, in the event only of a criminal intent being proved by trial (a thing next to impossible of accomplishment) could any responsibility attach. - In the first instance, it leaves the right insecure, if it does not hold out a rein to abuse. - In either event, an Incumbent equal only to such acts, is, in my opinion, surely by no means fitted for the position he fills.

It seems there is but one remedy in this case, as it now stands; that is a personal suit for false arrest, which it would be hardly judicious to bring.  Through an indictment only could the Commonwealth be brought to take cognizance of it, as a malfeasance; and, as has already been remarked, that could hardly be effected.

Beyond this, there appears to be no remedy whatever; for if even had there originally existed any right of appeal - which is left undecided - from lack of information on the part of the party aggrieved, the provisionary period had expired sometime before she exerted any effort, by even applying to me, to seek redress.  While then the recognizance