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you how unable a large body of the freed people of Portsmouth are to aid in building a school house.

If these colored people lived where they could find constant employment & be paid for their work, they would need but little aid now. But the white people of Portsmouth are, for the most part, poor, & when the colored people [[strikethrough]] they seldom get their [[/strikethrough]] are employed they seldom get their full pay & not infrequently they get nothing for their work

To know how much these freed people need help to build a schoolhouse one needs to live here & go among them; a stranger can not understand the situation

Strenuous efforts are being made to raise money to pay for a school-house lot; but I doubt if more than half enough can be raised on the ground; friends at the north must raise the balance.