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the knowledge of the Freedmen when they heard it they were very angry and said as they were a free people that he had a right to consult them before he made any such proposition. The black people say that they will not have anything to do with the Rebs and that they will burn the school rather than let them have it that they know them too well and that their offering to do so much for them is a trap to get a half of their property, I think so too. There are two black men here who are opposed to me one because I dismissed his child from school for bad conduct the other because he is a friend of his  The Rebs think this is a fine thing to work upon but they are best on the paint because all the other black people are opposed to them. This thing has been going on for the past month and has caused quite an excitement among the Freedmen