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them which is your compliment for Savannah thus if they all stay then all others must go, or if as I maintain that this number should be reduced to just what they can pay for, and what are necessary to teach the pupils who attend their schools, then there are four who are teaching private schools, whose pupils pay tuition and as they have been sustained for a long time one of them for thirty years, and are doing some good while no good reason exists for disturbing them, so that the chances of northern teachers remaining under your decision remains dim still, though they are teaching the only really good schools in the city. There is doubtless need of a revolution in things, and of course more system, and the number of teachers can be reduced somewhat but it does not seem best to me to disturb the private schools where the pupils pay tuition. This is an