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except at the peril of the complainant or informer. Adultery and lewdness pass unnoticed and unrebuked. The magistrates and other civil officers act more to avoid the penalty of the law then to punish the offence or suppress the evil.  Schools are looked upon as tending to evil. A knowledge of reading and writing is considered unnecessary for a laboring man and dangerous in a colored man. Under the teaching of the advocates of an aristocracy the pernicious influences of vice and vile men has full sway to the detriment and ruin of the whole community.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
Wm. P. Austin
Asst. Sub. Asst. Comr.