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The political animosity of the Magistrates toward a Union man, of either color is so great that I have reason to believe, he would do more injury to the complaining party, if a loyal man, than justice to the party complained of, if of the opposite sentiments.  When a Justice of the Peace will degrade himself and his office by committing assault and battery on a white man without other cause for aggrivation and offence, than his loyalty tested -, as was done in this place but a few days since, I do not think such a  man is too moral to manifest his resentment, against a colored applicant for redress in case the accused be of the more popular stripe - a rebel - While I do not think all the Magistrates would demean themselves to the extent here represented, it is but a fair representation of the spirit engendered, and personal feelings of many.

Although I am unable to recite any instances where actual injustice has been done a colored person by any Magistrate, yet this spirit of animosity courted by them, against a man white or colored, with loyal proclivities, is so prominently manifest, that it is with a spirit of misgiving as to the result that I refer the complaints

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