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feel its duty to stay longer than the year however I trust God who cared for the Hebrew children will watch over these people, and provide them an other teacher one who will be better than I have done, I would have been glad to have done much more for them if my health would have permitted, the colored people have been very kind to me, and have made my work as light as they could, I would that I could say as much of the white people, who remain just as bitter as ever, my experience here confirms me in the opinion that it is useless to try to convince the rebels that we are not what they pretend to believe us to be, or to try to overcome them by kindness they are wilfully ignorant and vindictive they have said and done about as much as they can against me I think, and it has mostly fallen back on their