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I have seen men who were in a measure quite intelligent and no doubt industrious, who had worked during the whole of last year and yet they were actualy without clothing sufficient to cover them, to say nothing of its being sufficient to keep them warm.

The civil authoraties of the town of Danville seem kindly disposed towards the Freedmen, yet popular opinion and public sentiment is so much against eqeual Justice to the Freedman, that men are actualy afraid to have it and give Justice to the black man.

I do not know a lawyer who I believe would in open court plead the case of a freedman who might be his client, as he would for a white

That these people are not paid promptly for their labour, and that popular sentiment (which is beyond all question of doubt against the black man) will not allow him equeal Justice in the courts, makes it evident and actualy necessary that the freedmens court should be again opened.

In no place that I have been in

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