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persist in preventing the adjudication of Freedmen's cases by the civil authorities there have been but few cases in which colored persons appeared as parties brought before the courts & consequently, I am not able to report any instances of injustice or oppression towards the race growing out of indifference to their complaint or prejudice to their interests. My experience in this sphere of operation has resulted in the conviction that as a general thing the Civil Courts and authorities in Virginia are in judgments, verdicts and action biassed, in fact controlled by partiality and prejudice in their management & disposition of cases, in which colored persons are interested and hence cannot in justice to my sense of duty

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