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over the workfliop, infilled upon his getting up 

 to go with him. The poor fellow pleaded 

 that it was night s that he had toiled through 

 the whole of the day, and further that he was 

 ordered by the commandant to work only at 

 the hofpital until that was completed. The 

 Dutchman, neverthelefs, infifted upon his 

 going. The flave unhappily refufed. Words 

 enfued ; and the white man, feizing the black 

 by the hair of his head, dragged him down 

 into the workfhop ; where, in the fcuffle, the 

 Dutchman happened to receive a bruife of the 

 elbow. 



The following morning a complaint was 

 made to a public officer, high in power, dating 

 that the negro had (truck the Dutchman, and 

 wounded him ; and it beirg an offence utterly 

 unpardonable for a black man, under any cir- 

 cumftances, to lift his hand againft a white one, 

 the poor Have, without further inquiry, was 

 fentenced to receive the punifhment we had 

 witnelfed. 



We could not feel fatisfied that the pro*, 

 ceedings had been conduded with a due regard 

 tojuftice, and therefore we waited upon the 



