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Here where rents are high and no demand for labor there many be want and suffering. In every division some of the Juries and magistracy exhibit a decided tendency to discriminate against the colored man and in favor of the white. While at Harry C.N. I attended the trial of a negro for hog stealing. In a previous trail when the law of Virginia made theft of $20.00 grand larceny, witnesses swore the hog in question-it weighed about 150 lbs gross- was work $20.00; now on the second trail when the law is changed making $50.00 grand larceny the jury sent the negro to prison for three years on extremely doubtful testimony that the hog was worth $50.00

The outrage on Justice was so great that no one could be silly enough to suppose a white man would have received similar verdict. Major Sharp informed me that at Lexington it required a threat of troops to induct even a resolution that the peace would be preserved hereafter, and he assured some citizens in my presence that the civil authorities must protect the rights of the colored man or troops would be sent there. General Willcox ordered the release of a negro in this city, confined to jail, and