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Wytheville VA
April 23. 68

Rev. R. M. Manly
Supt. Ed.

Dear Sir

Your note of the 18th read - is at hand and the instructions will be complied with.

From the best evidence I can obtain there will be a larger vote in favor of the Constitution with all its faults than was cast by the Republican party last Oct. in the counties in this vicinity.  The colored population is so small that the mixed school question has but