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who was absolutely independent of both classes. would in its operations have secured these poor people, what they have been defrauded of. through the technicalities of the law, and the chicanery of lawyers, and would have resulted in cementing the races, or if not that, bringing about a far more desirable state of feeling than exists between them now.

I have notwithstanding these facts, no cases to report, where in my opinion, any serious injustice has been done a colored person, by refusing to receive a sworn statement, or in declining to act promptly toward securing the colored person his rights under the law.- The injury done the Freedmen. by reason of their disadvantages is not. done. in that way_ It is in the manner in which Courts and Juries consider testimony offered by a

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