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School under my charge. but Sir it is far from being a lucrative one unless the Superintendent of Education will pay me a salary I will be oblige to report to some other mode of making a support for myself and family. I have the one predominant feeling in my mind and that is the elevation of the youth of my color so if I have to give up my school here it will be with feelings of regret. But you know I can't sacrifice my little children, my wife and self for the advancement of the children here and their parents not able to keep me from starvation. Since I have commenced writing the above there is a case of villainy reported to me as being enacted in this place by one of the reconstructed Magistrates here Well I will plainly state the case. A few weeks ago Frederic Lewis a freedman was standing on a corner conversing with some men of color. When J.P. Hagerty an Ex Rebel captain came by and commences making very small of the aforesaid. Frederic in a joking way and he (Fred) returned the thrusts he gave him in a way that Ex Reb didnt like. When all the furies of an aroused traitor a slavery loving autocrat in defiance of all the laws that have been passed by the friends of the black man for his personal protection he (Hagerty) turned upon the above named Freedman and beat him severely with a stick right here too where if it had been a colored struck a white man would of been sufficient excuse for the colored man to of been sent to the Penitentiary. Well Frederic