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school with four teachers to this season. Now the society says "you must board teachers in no school" and after three months urging, begging, entreating, some $15 is contributed on that behalf - not 1/4 of the money spent every week for Tobacco in the village

The question recurs, can such a blind, ungrateful, unappreciative people ever rise to the level of true manhood.

I know they are in a difficult position. I know they are daily and hourly beset by "their best friends" who tell them "knowledge is useless and if drank from Northern spring absolutely poisenous" but what shall we say of a people who having just escaped from slavery show so little regard for those who unbarred the prison doors or hesitation in again placing themselves in the hands of their old jailers.

Candidly I fear for the result when