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and advantages of the other, would leave very little in doubt as to who would have to pay the cost of the Court.

I understand, that in the case of Huckstep vs. Jamir, young Jamir claims he beat and threatened to kill the [[strikethrough]] Jamir [[/strikethrough] Freedman because in the absence of the former he used some profane language in the presence of his sister telling her he be damned if he would be ordered around by any poor white man; meaning her father. I have been been told, that for such an insult offered to a Woman (a white one, of course) here no judge or jury in the State would convict the murderer, or even hear the case; otherwise they would themselves deserve to be shot. This is according to the high sense of the chivalric code of honor. 

White complaints against the violence and indolence of the Freeman - without sufficient cause (no destitute rations are issued in my Sub District) - are persistently loud and deep complaints, by the latter, of cruelty and outrage committed on them by the Whites, are daily, alarmingly increasing. Only yesterday, two men going quietly along the high road were violently assaulted, by some Whites; one of the Freedmen having his head so badly crushed as to require medical aid. Retaliation in this instance might have produced a very serious riot;

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