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give ample security which I do not doubt. He comtemplates two  buildings one for a church and the other for a school house.  The enterprise proposed by Mr. George is not favored by the teachers at all on the contrary it is oppoed by them for many reasons in which I concur  I enclosed  letter from Miss Gardner the priciple teacher.  It appears that Mr. George and our conservative freedmen named Richman are very anxious to get control if possible of the school building here and construct a schoolouse and church.  They have a few colored followers and can they assert get assistance from the whites to by a lot on which to locate the buildings.  Their church would be well enough if they could establish it but it would not be supported by any considerable number of the colored people.  The great mass of them look upon Mr. George and Mr. Rickman with distrust.  If any man is to be made on the part of the Government to provide a church for the freedmen I think I should first be for the Mass and not be under the auspices of those who leave not their