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“legal” town meeting could do lawfully what it was unlawful for an individual to do. They were willing to shift the odium of the outrage of what they were about to do upon the “legal” town meeting. A committee was appointed to report a plan for the action of the town. After much labor, that committee presented a series of resolutions, embracing within their tortuous folds the plan, that was to destroy the school, or rather as those who were seeking an excuse for their acts to “abate the public Nuisance.” And now we come to the reports, the author of which sleeps in obscurity:

   Whereas believing certain individuals, by the practice of of land and deception have abused public opinion abroad in reference to the state of feeling in this town respecting the colored school here, and believing that designing demagogues and desperate Politicians abroad in connection with a few sordid spirits in this town who are influenced more by the love of gain than the love of God and man, are determined to continue their black operations in this town against the wishes of a large majority of its citizens. Although they have once and again expressed their disaprobation and have borne and forbourn until forbearance had ceased to be a “virtue.” Therefore Resolved That from what our own eyes have seen and our ears have heard respecting the close intimacy that exists between some of the colored boys and white females, we believe if suffered to go on, it will not be long before we shall have living evidence of an amalgamation of blood. Resolved That we consider the Colored School in this town a Public Nuisance and that it is the duty of the town to take immediate measures to remove said nuisance.

   Voted the town take immediate measures to remove the house in which the colored school is kept.

   Voted that the Selectmen select the spot on which to set said building.

   Voted that a committee be chosen to superintend the moving of said building at the expense of the town.

   Voted that a committee of 15 or 20 persons be chosen for said committee and the following were chosen viz.:

Jacob Trussell (still at 90 broken and defiant)
Chamberlain Packard Jr (killed by God)
Win Campbell (a foolish old infidel)
Herod Richardson
Elijah R. Colby (dead and rotten and now forgotten)
Americus Gates
Daniel Pattee Jr (a blasphemous cripple)
Nathaniel Shepherd (Common drunkard)
Luther Kinne (Ossified legs)
Peter Stevens