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I have managed to arrange satisfactorily myself.  While these have been presented to the civil authorities who promise to act on them, but have not yet acted, as the incidents which gave rise to them were of quite recent occurrence.

One case has come to my observation which was adjudicated by the Mayor of Lexington; and in it he acted in good faith and to my entire satisfaction - 

Were you to propound to me the question "Can a freedman get justice in the County?"  I would answer that - this depends on circumstances.  If the freedman bore a good character and his white adversary a bad or even a doubtful reputation, or that the former party with money, or white friends, I believe he would get the fullest justice in ordinary cases - indeed he would be likely to get it - were the opposing party even a man of respectability -  But, on the contrary, should the freedman be of bad character, or be guilty of any impudence or impropriety in word or action, and should the other party be a man of high position and general popularity, I presume the result in many cases, would be the same as was experienced in the trials of J.C. Johnson and Wm. Watson - 

In this connection let me express my apprehension lest the late decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, declaring military commissions illegal, and the action of the President in extending said decision to embrace the States late in rebellion may have disastrous effect upon the future interests of the freedpeople, for scarcely was the dissolution of the Watson Commission known here before I had two cases of assault on the persons of two blacks - one of them an outrageous one in which a negro woman had her head cut very badly and came near being killed -