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Hence the doubt, in trials of freedmen, always goes against the freedmen: - hence the maximum penalty of the law goes to the black man; the minimum to the white man. A colored witness is thrust for safe keeping into the jail with the felon against whom he is to testify, and no southern gentleman is offended thereby. A negro is killed upon slight provocation - the very slightest - and every white man of this murderers acquaintance vindicates the deed.
No outrage upon the virtue of colored females or violation of freedmans rights receives any general condemnation from Southern Society; and yet - and this is one of the worst, most discouraging features of the situation - every Southern man considers himself wholly and supremely qualified to administer justice to the freedpeople, and scants the idea of a better protection for them than he can give. 

The conceit and prejudice of the late rebels will not soon be abandoned, but [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] are fixed in them as firmly as respect of ancestral institutions, and education can plant them.

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