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control of the School-House. It is hard work enough
to maintain our ground against these Rebel powers civil & social, without the danger of having the 'Bureau' influenced by the misrepresentations of a Colored Baptist minister, employed by
Rebel School Trustees to teach the few colored children they have been able to draw off from our excellent school.
I have taught here nearly three years, finished the school-house, which was but a shell when I came; I have been aided by most devoted friends to accomplish a lasting work for these poor people. Our pupils in July number over sixty -