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several weeks ago.  I thought it very desirable to try to get up a school house there at Florence but [[?]] we can hardly accomplish that. If [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] you can repair the Baptist for them as Waring has written you that will answer & enable him to grade his schools. This will be all important.

We look at your State as a most important field of labor. Unless Waring is greatly mistaken, the feeling among leading whites in that section looks promising. So far as it can be done without real sacrifice of principle & right we regard it as of the utmost importance to conciliate the whites. I think Waring

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