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as may be practicable. Conceiving as I do it to be almost utterally futile to attempt to elevate any class of persons morally to a considerable and permanent degree without first laying the  essential basis of intellectual culture & development I am in favor of education. The children on the place could go to school as regular thing & those persons employed as laborers could be instructed in the Sabbath school, during the night prior to the hour of retirement and at noon, when during the Summer months & long days, these laborers will have some time to rest from labor: - Thus all on the place may be benefited by the schools if they are so disposed & I will so far as I may be able to do so, by presenting the incentives which should stimulate to such a course endeavor to induce them to avail themselves of the benefits which may be thus afforded. In the neighborhood of this farm there are quiet a number of colord persons (children) who might attend the schools being sufficiently near & then adult Colored persons in the vicinity can attend the Sabbath School.