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obliged to testify all they knew against their husbands.  There was nothing else in the examination which seemed to me unjust or in any way different from the course which would have been pursued toward a white Prisoner but there was a disposition to judge the Prisoners guilty beforehand which it seems to me would give these men no chance in a final trial before a Jury of Citizens of this County no matter what evidence might be gathered in their favor.

I am General
With Great Respect
C P Goodyear
Asst Supt Warwick Co Va.

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