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donated, but if not the freedmen have already raised a building fund of som [[some]] $130.00 which will prove amply sufficient for the purpose.

About continuing the School - There is nothing I desire more or would labor more earnestly for. If Miss Benton is a teacher you can recommend, I should say by all means let her be urged to come to Eufaula & continue our school. There is such a need of the school being kept up and though the teachers sent here will receive a most "determined letting alone", yet I have no fear that any molestation will be offered. Because ex Gov. Shorter, who rules public opinion is not unfriendly, to say the least, to the school, and then a Mr. Chauvey Rhodes, who is not only a decided Christian but one of the most influential & prominent men of the place, being cashier of the Eastern Bank of Ala. - assist us in our Sunday School and will continue the same upon