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to turn the current in either direction. My accusations reported in the day school last month were mainly orphans and the distressed poor from the street totally unused to discipline and of course not a very good element to build a school of; and, while I'm quite willing that the work here should begin with this class I'm far from being willing that it should end there. The school must be built up, let the sacrifice be what it may on my part.
About my neighbor I do not like to speak. I had supposed that you knew him and had given him recognition in the past from necessity, and that whatever he or freedmen influenced by him might write concerning his popularity (which is but imaginary) would have little weight with you. What I have known of the "Bureau" in the past has given me the impression that teachers