[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 CHAPTER II 19/133
Bath is a picturesque little village, embowered in perpetual green, and lying at the foot of a mountain on one side, and on the other by the margin of a rambling little river.
It seems to have accumulated around it and within it, all the verdure and foliage of a tropical clime. Having a letter of introduction, we called on the special magistrate for that district--George Willis, Esq.
As we entered his office, an apprentice was led up in irons by a policeman, and at the same time another man rode up with a letter from the master of the apprentice, directing the magistrate to release him instantly.
The facts of this case, as Mr.W.himself explained them to us, will illustrate the careless manner in which the magistrates administer the law.
The master had sent his apprentice to a neighboring estate, where there had been some disturbance, to get his clothes, which had been left there.
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