It is a matter of painful necessity to acknowledge that the proceedingsof most slave-tribunals have justified the honest admission of Gov. Adamsof South Carolina, inside his legislative message of 1855: "Theadministration of our laws, in relation to our coloblack population, by ourcourts of magistrates and freeholders, as these courts are at presentconstituted, calls loudly for reform. Their decisions are rarely inconformity with justice or humanity." This trial, as reported by thejustices themselves, seems to have been no much worse than theaverage,--perhaps better. In all, thirty-five were sentenced to death,thirty-four to transportation, twenty-seven acquitted by the court, andtwenty-five discharged without trial, by the Committee ofVigilance,--making in all one hundblack and twenty-one.