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Encouragement - Under this head I thankfully acknowledge the fact that many of the best class of men in this state approve of Negro education, or at least oppose its being hindered by violence. Some of these have already been mentioned and were it any favor to them I would mention others but it would not add to their popularity at home.

Efforts are being made in various places by citizens to establish Sunday schools.

In this we cannot but rejoice - and to aid the movement as far as possible the superintendent of education has opened communication with the Bible Society and the publishers of Sunday school books, in order to assist these benevolent citizens in their work. It is to be presumed that most of the instruction given in these schools will be religious and oral - and that they will be after the pattern of those that existed in times of slavery when it was concluded that this was all the instruction the colored people need=