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So far, at least, as hourly contact with "heathens" is concerned, the Teacher of a Freedmans school in Texas is as truly a Missionary as are any who are sent by the Church to pagan lands.
 
In a recent instance where, after much persuasion, a white Family was induced to receive a Female Teacher to board, the Citizens raised a sum equal to the price of a year boarding, & tendered it to the Family, with a "request" for the instant dismissal of the "Nigger Teacher". It was done; & without an hours notice the Lady turned into the street, after dark, & in the rain, to find quarters where she could. 

Anonymous & menacing letters are frequently sent to those supposed to be accessible to this Chivalric mode of assault, & in the case of Female Teachers scurrilous & scandalous reports are circulated to blacken their reputation, while the press stands conveniently ready to give wings to every defamatory word. 

In this warfare of venom & stings the Women of Texas are foremost & worst, & next to the women are the preachers. 

It is a common practice to dissuade pupils from attendance

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