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in the Courts. - No cases. in which colored persons appeared as parties excepting a few criminal cases have been tried by the Courts during this month.

Among the reflecting substantial people. I think it is manifest. that there is as a general thing. a disposition to give the Freedmen. fair and impartial hearings. but among the lower classes there is a clearly defined and firmly established determination. to obstruct his advancement in every possible way. and especially is this evident in the manner. in which his ignorance of the rules of evidence. and blunders are ridiculed.

Whenever I find an intelligent Jury. our Magistrates on the Bench- I find a disposition manifested to give the colored man all that he in entitled to. but it is a deplorable fact that in this

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