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present it as the strongest, and clearest proof of the feeling existing in that Court as in many others, prejudicial to the interests of the freedmen, and having a tendency not only to ignore the provisions of Congress for the protection and elevation of the colored people, but to deprive them of that justice, which is insured every citizen by the laws of the land.

To me it is the most decided evidence that the freedmen cannot expect, and will not receive full and equal justice at the hands of the Courts and Magistrates.

The articles in the local papers commenting on this report have been of an insolent and aggravating character, and whilst it is humiliating to become a victim to the unrelenting prejudices, fostered and cultivated here, both privately and publicly, and which find vent upon Northern men, especially those who are representatives of the Government, in every conceivable way, in the most malignant shapes, I am forced

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