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expression before him, in his judicial capacity in a public Court of Justice, that a W.S. Office known to be there present, in the proper discharge of his [[strikethrough]]proper and[[/strikethrough]] incumbent duty, has not the right to claim protection from or resent the indignity offered him personally on the Government through him, as to (not secret) agent or otherwise.

Several White persons were also tried before the same court for Larceny, & various other minor misdemeanors; but no other colored. One white man convicted of Larceny was sent to the Penitentiary for give years: & another charged with a like offense was acquitted.

A colored man and white woman were indicted by the Grand Jury, on the 15th Inst, for unlawfully, cohabiting together, it is said for the last twenty years; she having had several children by him. I understand she is a woman of property & owned several slaves. There were also some other whites indicted on other charges; but no more colored persons.

There were various cases of offenses committed by White against colored persons, that should have gone before this Grand Jury; but the latter not appearing, although previously instructed to, nothing could be done. In one instance, I gave a Freedman "Leonard Jones" who on the day the Court convened complained to me that he had been beaten by his white employer - "John H. Wade" - who endeavored to first tie his hands together, the better to inflict the punishment - a not to the Grand Jury; not naming him, but simply stating that the bearer desired to lay his case before them, in order to gain him admission; & desired him to send the Clerk of the County Court, who would show him into the room. The Clerk afterwards informed me that he handed in the not himself, & told the Freedman