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These men are very bitter in this opposition to northern 'radicals' and they utterly refuse to allow the building to be used as a school house, with myself or any northern person as teacher.
There is no other house in the place which can be hired for the purpose, for love or money. 
The colored people were very much interested in employing me and apparently disposed to send me a large school. Their leading men came to me last evening and expressed much regret that their plan of employing me should meet with so strong an opposition from the whites, to whom they say they are under heavy obligations and therefore they will be obliged to drop the school for the present.