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throw me so". But we must deal with the question and these people as the mason does with granite. Keep on hammering and if each blow does seem to produce trivial results, constant repetition of these apparently trifling efforts will make the rough places smooth. The great drawback in that the agitators hereabouts, Msrs. Robinson, Homes, Nelson and even Bland care for nothing but self, care for nothing likely to divert 25¢ from their pockets and do not cooperate even by and with those who seek to elevate their race. Look at the way Blanchard was misled into coming here, by Nelson, & Bland. When here they would do nothing at all and I got with a nice mess here for which I can only hope the charitable disposition of Connecticut people at Richmond will extricate me. I had to take them to the Hotel and pay their board or they would have slept out in the streets and apart from a feeling of sympathy with people of refinement and education in such distress I felt a sorrow and almost pride forbidding that any Yankee should be a mendicant among Virginians. I hope you will together be able to help me out of a scrap I had no part in getting into. Very truly Thos J Jackson