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that he had ever organized a military company, drilled, or that he had ever intimated or said anything to the colored people about arming them. The prosecution was only able to prove that he (Lewis) had been heard to say that certain persons, giving their names, had been trying to injure and interfere with him, and that if they did not stop interfering with him that the next thing they would know they wouldn't know anything."  Dr. Lewis has committed no overt act, offered no indignity, given no insult, committed no outrage, or perpetrated any act calculated to incite the Freedmen to insurrection.  The evidence for the defense proved such to be the fact, that he had never mustered, drilled, or organized the colored people into a military company, that he had never been heard to state to them that they were to be armed &c, but that the organization which had at different times assembled at his place was purely of a political nature.

The justice of the Peace before whom the examination was held refused to and did not examine but a very few of Dr. Lewis' witnesses

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