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in the 15th Amendment.
Mr. Ruffin from your University - spoke here most acceptably last fall - He can tell  you of his visit - 
We hope greatly he will come & speak again before November -
He can do a good work for the cause & the
colored people here -
All our little land he met here; Mr. & Mrs.  Nash, Mr. & Mrs. Brownler Miss Howland, Miss Thomas would join heartily in the invitation to him, except perhaps, Pyramus  Nutt, who was then the preacher - He & his family have turned against 
us, & joined Mr. Leonard

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