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the real obligation, by warranty, of Mrs. Robinson, which is all her interest, is small, vague and remote.
   
Mrs. Robinson has no right to come into any court and bring any action respecting this land.  She has sold it to a white man who claims the right to eject a white woman now in possession.  He is bound to litigate the title he has bought with a particularly good opportunity to know the facts, and he cannot bring Mrs Robinson into the case until he can show his own damage by defect in title.  If his own story, as well as that of Mrs Robinson, is true his title is perfect and there is no danger of the latter becoming liable.

I do not see that Mr. Snyder is an object for the sympathy of the Bureau, nor in the remote interest of the only colored person concerned so affected or endangered as to require interference at present.  The real case is between white and white, nor does it even appear that one of the witnesses relied on, whose affidavits are presented, is colored.  So it is not seen why the case may not be fairly tried in the civil courts or why  Mr. Snyder should not at this own expense and trouble litigate the lawsuit he has chosen to bring instead of saddling the matter on the Bureau by color of a colored woman's very contingent interest.  I can scarcely doubt that Mrs. Robinson's application is at Snyder's instance and not in her own real behalf.  The conveyance being bona' fide, Mrs. Robinson, if properly advised, would rest quiet.  She has sold her land, conveying a title which her grantee still says is good,

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