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notice, the freedmen have been treated with marked kindness, and indulgence that is by the Court and this is so, in the County Courts where the majority of the sitting magistrates are reliable men. Even those who betray timidity &c when sitting alone, exhibit, on the bench of the County Court, the most invincible and uncompromising determination to do the colored man justice & yield to him all the rights and privileges he is entitled to under the law.

I also find, that without exception that class of Magistrates to whom I send cases for trial, examination, &c without an exception have been prompt and just in redressing real grievances, and have not shown any disposition to evade punishing any aggressions upon the rights of the negro.

It is of course, to be

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