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of only about six in seven schollars attending, which was not sufficient to pay her to continue the school, And she expected to get a larger school near Dallas, and to-board with a colored man named Wallace Friday living on the land of Mrs Darcy O Bryan (white), but when she went there to board Friday's wife told her that Mrs O'Bryan objected to their taking her to board, and said that if they did so, that they had better look out and get some one else to give them land to live on, that she objected to their having Miss Clark living with them, and she then gave up the idea of trying to get up a school, in consequence of not being able to obtain board for herself, Miss Clark said further that no one has ever spoken to her objecting to the schools, or made any threats to her of any kind, but that she heard from others that persons had said that they would do some measures to her if she continued to teach a school. She also stated that she did not think that there would be any violence used, or any thing done by the people of Gaston Co towards the school house or the scholars to break up a school, but was afraid from hearsay that they might do something to her, that for the last three years her Fathers family had discarded her, and although she was living within four miles of her Fathers family they 
would not have any thing to do with her - in consequence of her having a colored child about two years ago, and the white people would not have any thing to do with her. After leaving Miss Clark I saw a colored man named Prince

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Schuyler, who was making a crop for Mrs. C. Hager the lady who allowed Miss Clark to live with her, and at whose house she is at present. Schyuler told me in a conversation I had with him, which he did not want to get out in the neighborhood - that Miss Clark had been entirely too free with the Colored people, and that this was the cause of the objections made to her teaching school - that he had never seen anything out of the way in Miss Clark himself, but that her schollars, young children had been talking about the way she had been carrying on with some black men, and the colored people did not like to send their children to school to her, in consequence of the way she was acting. That he did not believe that there would be any violence used or any thing to prevent a school giving on if they had a good teacher, Saml Mooney another Colored man living near where Miss Clark is staying; and had her school & says that she has been too free with the colored people, and that she has a hankering after one of his sons - which he was trying to break off, but did not know whether he would succeed or not, that she would marry a black man in a minute if she could get him. And that he thought there would be no trouble about the schools if they had a good teacher, but did not think that one could be carried on successfully until after the Crops were laid by - when they would start a school again. I informed a number of the colored people that they would be protected in their