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PROCEEDINGS IN CONTESTED ELECTION CASE OF GEO. MCDOUGALL.33
say that if the sheriff went out to the River Raisins' and offered to take any of their property he would head a party and oppose him; he also said that the law was unjust and oppressive; he afterwards said we
will come forward and pay them ourselves for the good of the inhabitants.
The Court—at the request of Mr. McDougall—did not Mr. McDougall tell you that he believed that you and some few designing characters in town like yourself, had entered into a combination to drive the poor inhabitants to some act of desperation in hope of getting them outlawed and tyrannizing over them ?
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