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I feel a deep sympathy for the race,-And although I cannot believe with Maj Gen Pope in this Intellectual equality with the Caucasian Yet I have no doubt that they may be Educated to occupy a much higher social position than they do so at present-and I feel as a southern man, that the South, owes a debt to the Race, which can only be paid by Education & Civilizing it-For the Adults-I have little hope that much can be done-but one in a hundred of the Masses will, I fear ever learn to read-But the youth may be Educated & should be- We have no suitable house in this place for a school-The Old Church in which I taught last summer is dilapidated-in ten large windows-there is not a whole such nor a dozen farms of Glass-The roof leaks like a sieve-& we have no means of warming it & the freed men-here are not able, and I do not believe the present generation [[ease?]] be able to build a suitable house-Is there a chance of obtaining help to do it-we have a good lot, given for the purpose-please let me hear from you in this subject. In your