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judgement. I would and do cheerfully and confidently submit cases but by reason of the fact that this class of Magistrates are doing nearly all the business. I have no doubt from certain expressions of sentiment which have dropped from their lips in my hearing that they would gladly hail the day in which they would be relieved from the trial of any and in fact all freedmen cases. I have no doubt every of these county official would rejoice if the Freedmen's Court or some other court having as elusive jurisdiction in all cases in which freedmen are parties and which would be limited in its authority to impose fines &c would be put into operation. 

In the higher courts, the rights of the colored people are respected, and in those instances which have come under my personal

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