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strong objection being made to his teaching grown people at night, which they appear to think had a seditious appearance, while as far as I could learn, this was done because it was impossible for them to attend during the day, and they being very anxious to learn.
   I conversed with the Mayor of the place, and he knew nothing of the difficulty with the teacher until after he had left. But stated that he was informed that the teacher was supposed to have been instilling obnoxious principles into the minds of the freedmen, & that was the probably cause of his expulsion. He acknowledged that he thought the people generally were opposed to any Northern man opening a school there, and admitting at the same time that he thought it was almost impossible to get Southern Man to do it.
   Amos Doane, a colored storekeeper of the town, a man very well spoken of by the citizens informed me that they had been endeavoring to get a school for the past year, but could not succeed because they