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the aggrieved one.

The following case will illustrate this. Two Freedmen, Father and son, had by work done for their former master, really earned about from three to four hundred dollars; less a small amount of subsistence in kind furnished; which there was an evident disposition on the part of their employer to defraud them of. To recover their due, the father has been forced to employ a Lawyer; giving bond for 30$ as a first fee; and institute suit. The case, however, will not come up before next August, and can hardly be decided then, much within a year, at least. In the interim, the two Freedmen have necessarily been obliged to, themselves, incur heavy debts, to live; and although now working for themselves, being first class Blacksmiths by trade - before the case is decided, they will owe fully as much, if not more than the amount they will realize.

While writing the above a Freedman appeared before me and made complaint that he had been pursued, shot at, and