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is making some advancement, in morals and are gradually becoming a law-loving order-obeying people — and I am convinced that if they received as a general thing the same encouragement as the whites do to become acquainted with Mechanical and Manufacturing operations, and through such instrumentalities became able to provide for themselves and families the criminal calandar would show but few names on its face, which belong to Freedmen. They are becoming acquainted with the operations of the Civil Courts and where they see that their cases meet with the same consideration that those of the white man does — they manifest all the satisfaction that is reasonable and possible.

By reason of the fact that I continue to (as far as I can) confine the trial and adjudication of cases to those Magistrates who in my judgment discharge their duty, regardless of public sentiment, race, color, or consequences.

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