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so many ways.  Many men who have never owned slaves are renting land, and will get their living if they can by taking advantage of the Negro's inexperience, telling them stories that please their fancy, and thus take them "in."  Time alone will rectify this difficulty.  Besides in the event of a failure of the crop, the Negro, by the system of working on shares, is turned out in the winter, with "nothing to go upon."  The poor house is in a very sad condition.  There is no room to find fault, as the only distinction made in color is, that they occupy different shanties.  The colored people have such  a horror of the place, that they would almost starve in preference to going there.  The Authorities have been talking about improvements but  there it ends.
   I have purchased, a house just out of the village, suitable for a school, and meeting house, which I have given (the use of) to the colored people for three years.  I hope at this point at least, a teacher may be employed from the County, otherwise the house will not stand long.
   The feeling between the races, is improving Hardly a day passes but I learn of some new, and important convert of the doctrine of educating the Negros.  If the system of employing teachers