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one of the best, the largest and most convenient School Houses I have seen in the North State.  In this School House I  have just examined and addressed a beautiful company of seventy five freed children, the scholars of the School taught in this building by Mr J.P. Mendenhall of this state and Miss E.S. Davis of Baltimore Md.  Little did the colored people, men and women, of Salisbury, who, seeing our soldiers dying of starvation and inhumanity at the hands of Rebels, endangering their lives in the attempt to bring them food, dream, that out of these sufferings, and from the graves of these heroes, God, in his wisdom and goodness, would bring to them freedom, and the school, with its manifold mental, moral and Christian influences, to gladden to bless and elevate their darkened souls.  But the ways of God, mysterious, and past finding out, are,