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interests of the colored people. They will I believe raise $100 more. and it will be as much as they can do. 
In answer to some other queries -
There is no teacher now employed, because there is no house where one could teach. and I don't suppose there is a white man anywhere in the community that would rent one for such a purpose, so foolish and wicked is the prejudice. 
A teacher, and a good one, will be sustained beyond doubt so soon as the house is erected. The people are ready and anxious to do all they can toward this house. Although this is the fourth year of their freedom, there have not [[strikethrough]] been [[/strikethrough]] a dozen in this whole community I suppose who have been taught since that time sufficiently to be able to read the Emancipation Proclamation. There has not been a school within 8 miles of this community, in any direction. The prejudice on the part of the whites has been unacceptable. I do trust the Bureau at Richmond will do largely toward the house of this poor neglected people, and let them have if possible $400. 
You will please receive what sum may be granted and then notify by mail - the treasurer - Alfred Fox, Snickersville Post Office, who will come after it. He is an intelligent, worthy & responsible man. He is