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and the pupils and patrons wholly exposed to the ignoble and contemptable spite of these people, they would become as a sane consequent and out growth of such exposure and such treatment [[discontented?]] and faithless, and, if human retaliatory  if not revengeful. There is not a spot in all Mobile where they could safely fold their wings were it not for the [[pointed?]] and irristible arguments, the bayonets of our blue-coated missionaries.

And even now, as Mr Branch has proven by assiduous and unwaning  efforts there is no place that will be rented or sold for the purpose of a Freedmen’s school.  The entire white population seem to have agreed upon this matter; and in asserting, that "the Freedmen’s Bureau is but a curse to the colored man".  Now, it is as it has been Mr Branch’s earnest  desire to prove the utter fallacy of this later position not only to the intelligently good men of all our country, but also, to the convertable and non-convertable Anamases