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between Col. Carse on the one part and Mr. & Mrs. Dixon on the other, arising on each side from alledged unhandsome treatment of the opposite party, and I am satisfied from the statements of each of their own conduct that there has been too little of courtesy and forbearance on both sides. It seems to me, for example, that Col. Carse might have done better than to take possession of a certain room in the school-building, as quarters for the family of his servant, which Mrs. Dixon had fitted up at the expense of the association, and which she alledges she was needing for the use of the mission family, and that he might have done better than to return, in a uncourteous manner, her note to him asking him to desist from taking the room for such a purpose. 

I think the Dixons might have done better than, as a consequence of the above, to declare non intercourse for themselves and the teachers under their charge, with the family of Col. Carse. 

Col. Carse's objections to the Dixons on account of their treatment of the assistant teachers appear to relate to a matter outside of the line of his duty, and, beside

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