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deal honorably with them have no difficulty: as for the remainder they ought to suffer.
One case of outrage has been reported to me during the month as having occurred about the middle of January last, and which resulted in the stabbing of a cold man named Antony Pierce by a white man named James Benson, who is a resident of this county. The assault seems to have been entirely unprovoked; and to have originated from the fact that Pierce was known to have belonged to the Army. Pierce was accompanied by another colored man, named Carter, who was also assaulted but received no injuries. Both had formerly belonged to the 1st U.S. Cols Cavalry and the white man, named, as I hear Benjamin Davis, connected with the St. Charles Hotel at Richmond, was engaged with Bureau in this affair, and seems to have been the one to lead him on, but no weapons were seen in his (Davis) possession. The wound inflicted was bout three inches long and four inches
deep, penetrating from the middle of the chest, downward and to the right below the breast: it was pronounced by the surgeon who dressed it to have nearly proved fatal. While there is no evidence that there was any cause for this assault, other than what existed in the hell-born malignity of those who perpetrated the deed, I am bound to state that there has not been the sympathy manifested