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38 in the white churches of their own denomination! Those of us who are ministers of the Gospel have none of the usual pulpit or other courtesies extended to us by our fellow minister, the pastors of white churches! However friendly they and we may be, personally, and privately, the pastors of those churches dare not show it publicly, "from fear of the people!" In the city of Augusta there is not a boarding house that would dare to open its doors to a Northern teacher. To do so would be to create a sudden stampede among the boarders, who would be greatly insulted at such innovation! The hotels, however, do take us in, and find Northerners, travellers [[travelers]], &c., their best customers. Indeed, but for the immense travel of Northerners southward since the war, many of the best hotels in the South must have remained closed up. In some localities Northern teachers have been subjected to open insult and violence. Such was the case in Augusta, just after the war. We are frequently honored with anonymous letters, intended to awaken fear and annoy us in our work, but these fail their purpose. A sample of these is given below. "Yankee Teachers" cannot do their work in the South except in large towns and cities, where there are local authorities to protect them from violence. In villages and country districts they would be subject to constant indignities and even violence, the latter especially from what yet remains of prowling bands of the "Ku Klux Klan." These are generally composed of the lowest grade of desperadoes of the "white trash," but little in advance of the savages who infest our new States and Territories. They generally send a note with a hideous heading, an engraving of a coffin or skeleton head and bones, and containing orders to leave within a given time, or suffer the consequences of remaining, which consequences are understood to be violence to person or property. Immediately after the set time is out, the school house is burned, the "man of the house" required to dismiss his boarder or have his house damaged, or the teacher is mobbed and driven away. in many such cases the military have
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