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and I am quite certain that the foreman of the Jury was the father of the Green Penn mentioned in the indictment; the object in making the presentment was undoubtedly to bring odium upon me, and if possible to imprison me. The time the difficulty occurred, was when the Presidents peace proclamation was in force, and the Bureau Officers had no protection of their persons for acts committed in their official capacity, and when Genl Neide found, upon his investigation that I had been attacked by a crowd of the Penn family first, and merely defended myself, he not only exonerated me, but stated that Genl Terry would have committed the entire Party for trial if he had the power.
It seems in my opinion, to be manifestly unjust for me to undergo a trial before a Court, and Jury, probably not one of which, but what have been compelled by the Freedmans Court, to pay their Freedmen, and in this back Country prejudice is much stronger than law. 
The probability is if I were to be tried by the Patrick Court, I would not only have a large fine imposed on