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whites, and on Sabbath afternoon visited the col Sabbath School and preached to the col congregation at 3PM. The school there is well managed and the children are making astonishing progress.
It seems to me Griffin, ought to receive especial attention. There are a number of reliable union men there. We have purchased two houses and are doing what we can, but our field is so broad, and the calls so many, we are not able to fit them up as comfortably as they ought to be. Indeed we ought to have a first clap house at that point and teach poor whites as well as colored.
In no region have more outrages been committed, or of a more daring character than about this town of Jonesboro! Of these, or some of them; I presume you have heard. At this place they burnt our school house and church, we have a beautiful lot, and if we had means would erect a house immediately on