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I can assure you the colored people are exceedingly glad to have a school in the neighborhood. My heart is drawn more and more towards these unfortunate and illiterate people.

They have suffered very much here since the war 12 months ago or little more they tell me it would be hardly safe to open a colored school near Lewisburg.

They do not even now receive justice from the law all you know and if we can do everything to alleviate their deplorable conditions, we will do