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violated the contract?  Any dishonest employer, could upon this principle and upon the most trivial pretext appropriate to himself, the fruit of the labors, of all the hands, he could employ.

This may be answered by the proposition, that in case, the laborer, feels himself aggrieved, he can appeal to the Civil Courts, for redress. - he has his legal right now, to the same extent, a white man has &c.  Admitting that, even, if all that he claims, could be relied upon, as being rendered unto him, what would be left, to him, after the fees of his attorney, was taken out, to say, nothing of his loss of time &c.?  If his employer, was mean enough to take such, an advantage of him, he would not hesitate, to secure a continuance, or an appeal, and thus postpone or prolong the adjudication of the case.

I am convinced that the system of