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I came here, and unfortunately a Teacher on the farm next me who did not like me and who is an intimate friend of the Col's brother. Therefore the Col did not want me here on her account and because I was friends of persons he disliked. So he thought to heap indignities upon me & thus oust me. But he shall not if I can help it. Our name never was disgraced and he shall not do it. I can't be calm. I have taught school for 8 years the last two in Virginia and I can bring proofs of my good character from any number of the most respectable & most worthy in each place I have lived. When I first came to [[this? hire?]] as Teacher of Freedmen