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Falls County 
Marlin

I did not deem it wise or expedient to stay too long in Robertson County. At the Ranger Plantation there were fifty or more signees to the "Temperance Pledge" and much interest manifested. Arriving at Marlin I learned of the only school in the county as suspended during the "heated term"- I would suggest the opening of a school in the town as there are I understand enough freedmen in the vicinity to warrant one of at least thirty or forty pupils. There are several large plantation in this county where schools could be established to good advantage as one of which the 

Stallworth Plantation

I found the planter himself favorable to the "school movement" and disposed to do something to facilitate the matter promising me that by October he hoped to have a school in operation on his place. Here I addressed a large number of the freed people congregated as a 
Camp Meeting" on the importance of Education and Temperance. I was listened to with a great deal of attention by both planter and freedmen and afterward besides the hundred who signed the "pledge" promising to give the same prominence by hanging them as picture in their houses and cabins, there were many others, confirmed [[?]] heretofore, who promised temperance in the