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Missionery Soc'y have supplied- the school has kept on.
Even through all the terrible experience of the Election in July and its subsequent dangers, when I was afraid to walk the public ways alone.
In that dreadful August, Government sent me a great comfort in the appointment to the post office.
It was an indescribable relief from the tobacco, whiskey, & profanity of the little dirty rebel Store where I had been obliged to ask for my mail.

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A friend bought a piece of ground and built a home for me; and if left to work under Government protection, the blessing will I believe grow to grand results for the Freedmen.
They have already gained much knowledge of their new rights as citizens, and with sublime courage stood bravely the ordeal of intimidation last summer.
Now, the new trial of town Election approaches, & what the old Rebels failed to gain by threats they are cunningly seeking to gain by diplomacy-and mainly through flattering the vanity of the bigoted