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Being extremely unwilling to relinquish the idea of a new school building which has been the acme of our hopes for a year or more, after having purchased the land, - struggling through the obstacles interposed by the white inhabitants, whose persistent determination that we should not purchase a site within the corporation of Charlottesville, at length proved unavailing, - we would hereby ask if the Bureau would be willing to make as liberal an offer to a Committee of colored gentlemen of this city, provided they would pledge themselves to assume the entire responsibility of putting up the building