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it is waste of money to expend it on "cheap & incompetent teachers."  But the colored people are poor and the whites unable to aid them, though I believe many are willing. They have heard your letter read and knowing of no one who they could offer sufficient inducement to teach & who I could say is competent they direct me to address you again & solicit your aid in securing a competent colored lady or man to teach their children. They can gather in 40 pupils and pay a moderate tuition which with what aid you could render them I think would compensate a teacher very well. They seem disposed to adhere to their