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-ed it is not to be supposed therefore that these efforts render the establishment of ordinary schools unnecessary - and the hope is that they will, in the end, aid in fostering the prevalent desire for education. Thus = Though in some cases they are no doubt, intended to amuse the people and block the way of the common school teachers = we are glad to see them.

The newspapers have for some time called on the southern people to do something to meet the demand for colored schools - and so shut out the dreaded northern teachers. They sometimes say it is to prevent fanaticism and insubordination from being taught though no one has attempted to bring a single example of such teaching to our notice: frequently they honestly declare that it is to secure the giving of proper instruction to the colored people in regard to the just relation of the two races.  It is a matter of congratulation that the public mind of the state is directed to any consideration of this subject. The acknowledgement that the negro must be educated somehow, by somebody, is, a,