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Seem when sitting alone to be timid as to assuming responsibility.  Cases are set for trial, witnesses summoned, testimony received and recorded, but it cannot be concealed the fact is clear, conclusive, these people do not willingly listen to the statement of a colored man and when that statement goes upon the record along with that of a white man it does not have same weight.  It may be received as testimony, but not as evidence.  I cannot say that in any case any injustice has been done any man because of color or race but I have no doubt that there are cases which have been hastily tried or disposed of because one or both the parties were colored.

I believe from my acquaintance with public sentiment in this locality, that the people are not ready to give the freedmen the rights and privileges secured to them by the Civil Rights Bill and while Judges, Magistrates & Lawyers especially disclaim any inclination to even curtail those rights