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MARYVILLE, March 20, 1871.

To

The supplies and supervision bestowed by a few Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to our colored School in this place, and to eight other Schools in East Tennessee, have proved of great value in arousing the energies of our people, and in giving practical aims to their efforts on education and self-support. We therefore desire that this timely help (which we hereby thankfully acknowledge) may be continued and increased. Untold good could be accomplished in this way. It is a sad truth that unless such work is done before them--work which not only shows them their needs, but what they can do--our race seem destined to remain in ignorance many long years.  Most of these schools are in poor districts where ignorance and apathy predominate. Nothing will arouse them so much as the kind of work which has been done; and we implore God's richest blessing on those who have promoted it, and may still do so.

We have been moved from a sense of necessity, to make this appeal, on behalf of our famishing race.

We are, your most grateful friends,

Jacob Henry, H.L. Canseler, W.B. Scott, Sr. W.S. McTeer,
Trustees of the Maryville Colored School.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

This was got up by the Colored: and printed in the office of "The Maryville Republican"--a weekly-edited by Wm B. Scott Sr colored.

4/28 1871.  Yr. Warner