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Main text -ne, David Meyer, has without the least doubt assaulted the white man mistreated by the mob and has been among the first who seized hold of him, but only fellow lawbreakers have given witness to this and it is therefore doubtful in view of the inadmissibility in proceedings that he can be found guilty. Also, since his Status as free is unclear given that, long ago he was willed his freedom, but he has not been found to have the General Government’s Letter of Freedom required by the ordinances and, that besides, he is a poor subject having been, twice before in the hands of the courts, I considered exile from the Danish Colonies to be the most expedient method of progression with him. The other, Wm. Runnels, has taken an active part in the mob, but has not committed the coarsest excesses, but has never the less in an excited and mutinous tone yelled and proclaimed “le bon temp viendra”; he has admitted understanding the meaning of these words and despite having in the interrogation sought to force an explanation, it is clear that, given the current circumstances, they cannot mean anything other than the time is coming when we colored shall have the upper hand. Now, since the aforesaid Wm. Runnels was not born in this country but on St. Eustatius, and, by the way, is well known as being infected with these Times’ Weed of Unrest, I have considered it wiser to have him await The Good Times on St. Eustatius rather than in Your Majesty’s Colonies.  A copy of my Decree to the established Commission is most humbly attached. The Commission of May, 15th, 1815, to which my Decrees refer, is the one established to take a census, ahead of which each free colored was asked if he was willing to perform such services as, according to ancient customs, the authorities might demand. It is noteworthy that among all those involved, there is to be found only a single one, Richard Craven, who before this Commission has declared himself willing to obey, which fact I have also taken into consideration as a valid presumption of his submissive state of mind, in considerably reducing his punishment. All the others, as I have also noted in the decree, not as reason for punishment, but as a strengthening the presumption of the existence of a defiant mindset, have given a reply to the effect that they would perform no o-
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