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Charity- willingly given if only among the number, I could return enough of the better paying class to enable me to live most modestly. The prejudice against receiving free instruction has been very great, and though too proud to acknowledge the kindness, the patrons never made any effort to liquidate the debts. Our village of 800 inhabitants has many poor - many colored also, and if I succeed in getting my house paid for which I built with the hope of making a small select Boarding School. I shall be left free to follow my present inclinations and convictions of duty, in opening a school for Freedmen alone