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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 52: President Johnson's reconstruction and further bureau legislation for 1866 (search)
ich forbade such distinction, came into play. Upon a case of great outrage, committed by a white man upon a negro, where the Bureau agent brought the white man to trial and the white man was condemned and sentenced, an appeal was taken before Judge Bowie of the Maryland Court of Appeals, and the constitutionality of the Civil-Rights-Law called in question. Judge Bowie, to our joy, July 2d, decided that colored witnesses were competent, and that the Civil-Rights-Law in this respect was constitJudge Bowie, to our joy, July 2d, decided that colored witnesses were competent, and that the Civil-Rights-Law in this respect was constitutional. After that happy decision warrants were issued on the testimony of negroes. But the agents now found another obstacle. Constables refused to serve subpoenas for such witnesses, and even when colored men did testify, the prejudice of jurymen gave little or no weight to their testimony. In North Carolina General Robinson, now in command, delayed the transfer of cases for trial to the civil courts, especially those where whites had committed fraud, injury, or violence upon persons o
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
Blumenbach, Friedrich, II, 535, 536. Bodemeyer, von, Adelheid, II, 532, 544. Bodemeyer, von, Gertrude, II, 532, 534. Bodemeyer, von, Hedwig, II, 632, 634. Bodemeyer, von, Mrs., II, 531. Boggs, William R., I, 48,63,64, 72. Bond, Hugh, II, 318. Bonham, M. L., I, 147, 151. Boody, Alvan H., I, 28, 31. Borel, Thomas, I, 125. Botume, Elizabeth, II, 99. Boughton, Horace, I, 491. Bowdoin College, I, 23, 28, 30, 37 42, 43, 123. Bowen, Marcellus, II, 507. Bowie, Ogden, II, 285. Bowlegs, Billy, Chief, I, 84. Bowman, A. H., I, 100. Boynton, C. B., II, 396, 426, 429-431, 433-435. Boynton, H. V., II, 426, 433, 435. Bradley, Luther P., I, 613-615. Bragg, Braxton, I, 456, 471, 477, 479, 481, 484-486, 488, 490; II, 80, 131, 146, 151. Branch, Mr., I, 87. Breckinridge, Joseph C., I, 484, 485, 488. Brewerton, Henry, I, 46, 60. Brewster, A., II, 395. Bridgham, Thomas, I, 10. Britton, Emily, II, 566. Brock, Mr., I, 496, 497.