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when that court convenes, and the case is called for trial, it is just then ascertained that the Freedman was not properly committed, that the committment papers are wrong, and the prisoner is sent back to jail, to be brought before a magistrate and committed properly. After [[strikethrough]] l [[/strikethrough]] lying in prison over a month to await the next County Court, all owing to the intentional blunders of a prejudiced magistrate, they cannot plead ignorance of the proper forms as an excuse for each of them are furnished with the official forms. neither is it accidental for the frequent occurrence of it, shows plainly the cause of it. 

Another ease of injustice happened here a week ago, a white man and a Freedman were quarrelling, the white man as he himself testified struck the first blow, the Freedman in defending himself returned it. He was tried before a magistrate Dr. Royal of this County, who committed the Freedman to jail, and discharged the citizen. 

The Freedman in these counties have become so thoroughly disgusted and discouraged with the hope of receiving justice that they now bear up 

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