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interrupted during the past month, by the severe and inclement weather, making it almost impossible to perform the usual routine of duties pertaining to the same. Several Justices of the County have also been absent, so that a full Court could not be organized, making it necessary to postpone several important cases between Whites and Blacks, which if facts as represented are proven, the latter have been most awfully abused. Were it not for the existence of this Court in the County of York, I am satisfied that the treatment of the colored people would be very unjust and tyrannical

Removals

One of the great obstacles I contend against in the removal of "Freedmen" from York Co. are the accounts of harsh and cruel treatment by the whites in the neighboring counties. They represent that they are not treated fairly; that a species of slavery exists; that they are compelled to their employers "master" and "missus," that they are not paid promptly, if at all, and that instead of kind and encouraging words from the "whites" cuffs and oaths are meted out to them