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Office Howard Asylum,
Lauderdale, Miss. June 29", 1868

Ellen Wright,

Miss,
It has been reported at this Office that some of the patrons of your school are creating disturbance. Their excuse for so doing is that certain others of the patrons of the school voted at the late election in opposition to their views, and those who voted the Radical ticket threaten to withdraw from the school and keep their children at home, if the children of those voting the Democratic ticket are not expelled. You will, under no circumstances, expel a child from school on account of the political views of its parents. If the Radical portion of your scho patrons see fit to withdraw from the school, you will proceed the same as usual, giving scientific instructions to the children of the Democratic portion; on the other hand, should the Democratic withdraw, you will proceed in the same manner  I trust, however, that the Freedmen will not be so extremely partisan in their views on either side as to allow their prejudices to interfere with the education of their children  Such action on their part, would be not only wrong but

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