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[[seal]] LINCOLN SCHOOLS A.M.A. MACON GA. [[/seal]]

sectioned prejudice, tho' there is sometimes the chill blast of those pestilented North-Easters; but I have not learned of death in consequence, and have hope that the community will learn to enjoy them almost as heartily as a genuine Bostonian. It may require a long time, & there will doubtless be an effort more or less successful to render our return to this field uncalled for, by our finding our places supplied by other teachers. I fear their zeal will not carry them far in the face of so expensive an enterprise.

We know little of the real feeling of the community regarding our work. If we can judge by having never been interrupted or interfered with in our work, by a few visits from the white citizens, and an occasional expressed approval of our enterprise, we should say that in theory they were favorable to the education of the freedmen but had we not been here would or could hardly have put in practice their theory. A desire to see the freedman improve and become a good member of society, yet taking a