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independent of foreign aid, and will take their new time to complete the audience room. It is simply in pursuance of my promise that I would "try", that I write to ask if something conclusive cannot be done through the agency of your Home Missionary Society. We are all afflicted that the devil and his confederates here should be allowed to injure the poor colored people so successfully--
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
R.M. Manly 
Sup. Freedmen's Schools Va.