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REV. ADAM POE, D. D., PRESIDENT.
REV. J. M. WALDEN, COR. SEC.
LEVI COFFIN, GENERAL AGENT.
J. F. LARKIN, TREASURER.

Western Freedmen's- Aid Commission,
CINCINNATI, O.
Teacher's General Statement.
Lincoln School at Shelbyville Tenn., Feb 28th, 1867

D. Burt.
State Supt. F. Schools Nashville Tenn.
Dear Friend
Enclosed please find mo. Report for Feb on account troubles between School and Church I thought it proper to detain my Report a day on two larger than I would otherwise have done.

The difficulty between School and Church which referred to in my last continued to increase until the 22d when the School and people had a Celebration and the Speakers of the day were members of my Night School and they denounced the preachers who had come here and tried to inquire the School Co For this and other things, the Preacher in Charge as he styles himself (Perry Bowman). Completed his Church Board to vote my Nigh School out of the house and announced the fact publicly