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respect biased by prejudice or passion, the Bureau Courts would be preferable to the civil, and ought to be 
re-established — but, as it is impossible that all the officers of any organization should be such be such men, I cannot recommend the change.

There are undoubtedly occasional grievances sustained by the colored people before the magistrates and in the courts, but the same is the case with the White citizens here — and the case with all colors in every civilized land where there is the law's chicanery and the law's delay.

The evidence of colored witnesses is received — and received in such good faith that a recent case came under my observation in which a girl was acquitted of a charge of stealing on colored testimony which there was good reason to believe was false — and such was the opinion of the magistrate who decided the case — but — to use his own words, he "could not get over the oath of the Freedman" —

One fact which indicates that the negroes are not treated unjustly by the civil tribunals is that the students, cadets, and other strangers and farmers in the county bitterly denounce them and frequently use — in reference to some of their decisions — the well-known Southern expression that "A White man isn't quite as good as a nigger"

I write of things as they exist — not of what they might be if the pressure of Military power and

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