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one instance in which a colored woman after having obtained a warrant [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] to have a white man, who had beaten her rather severely, brought before the magistrate and bound over to keep the peace, went off, and has never had the warrant served; but I have reason to suppose that she was influenced by, at least one white person.  Another case, in which a man could not obtain fair compensation for his labor, as a Tanner, from the surrender to the first of this year, has been committed to a Lawyer, who will bring suit to recover.  Others are awaiting the meeting of the Grand Jury, before which they will have to go.

But there is one aggravated case, to which I desire to call attention 

On the 1st of September, a colored woman named Martha Wright, complained to me, that on going to the place of Mr "Daniel Padue", on the 30th August, accompanied by a white woman, to clear herself of a false charge of having misrepresented some commonplace language of his, by which a misunderstanding had resulted between another family and his - and although in the act of leaving his premises, as she had been ordered to, because she did not go quick enough, he first beat and then chaining her hands together drew her up to a tree, until her feet barely touched the ground, in which position he kept her, against her own and her husband's earnest entreaties (the latter having arrived soon after his wife has been chained up); and those of others, whom he, Padue, called in to see her; from about ten oclock a.m., late about two hours before sun down; threatening, further, when he let her down, that if he ever caught her on his place again, [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] "he would blow powder and shot in her, as long as he could find her".  I have since heard