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of the colored race.  But recent developments indicate also the growth of a lawless and bitter spirit, which, if unrestrained, will surely lead to consequences fearful to contemplate.
Among the colored people there are men of self-denial who may truly be called benefactors of their race.  Allen Williams, of Tuscaloosa, is an example.  He left a good trade, by which he was rapidly prospering, went out into the suburbs of the town upon a piece of land owned by another colored man, and built a neat, comfortable, log school house, into which he gathered a good number of pupils whom he has taught for more than three months.
Eugene Dorman, of Greensboro pursued a similar course.
Both of these men, and a woman at Marion, all engaged in teaching, as they told me, from a feeling that they must do something for their people.  I examined their pupils and am satisfied that they are doing a