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Rev C W [[underlined]] Sharp [[/underlined]]

turned out because [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] some of them were Baptists and unfriendly to him. The trustees have informed me that they will be expelled without exception, they further say that they shall exclude them from the new school house, and assert the power to exclude me from that house also. There is a manifest disposition in the trustees - one of whom was a rebel, and, with one exception, all of whom are under the influence of the conservative or anti-negro element, and hostile to the Bureau - to annoy me, to degrade, if possible, and finally to drive me out from here. I must have some assurance from the Bureau that I [[strikethrough]] shall [[/strikethrough]] have a right to [[strikethrough]] be here [[/strikethrough]] teach this school, and that I shall be sustained in it, to withstand the pressure that is continually brought to bear upon me. If I could be [[underlined]] certain [[/underlined]] that I can as a matter of right, and not of sufferance, [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] carry on this school in the new house, it would [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]] relieve me of some anxiety. There is much work to be done here in the way of education, which will [[strikethrough]] never [[/strikethrough]] not be done, unless some one from the outside does it. I regard this as an important field for the present at least. It is the manifest intent of the ruling influence here to defeat my object; and, if possible, make the efforts of the Bureau contemptible. Any failure on my part, would be regarded as a disgrace to that branch of government.