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of property is missed by a white man a gang is at once raised and every colored mans house in the neighborhood is searched, and it is very seldom that they procure a warrant so to go; even if they do apply for a warrant they can get one to search every house in the county to find one quart of corn, and our present magistrates of course do not ask for evidence that brings suspicion upon any certain one of committing the theft. Only last Saturday a Patrol, such as haunted the homes of colored people before and during the war, sighted a colored man in the public road because he had 1 1/2 bush corn and took the corn from him; they did not accuse him of stealing it from any certain place or farm; he told this Patrol that a man had given it to him for a debt that he owed him but that made no difference with them. Tomorrow I intend to investigate this matter to know whether he did steal it or not but even if he did I shall bring the case before the next Grand Jury Court, as Patrols are done away with now; but I am satisfied nothing will be done with the white men for serving him without a warrant of arrest. 
The above cases may be considered as trifles but the colored people feel such things very sensibly and