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Not to let the good work slack for want of encouragement. In a few words Education is the desideratum to bring freedpeople self-sustaining and to a knowledge how to conduct their business profitably, so that they may no longer work the whole year to find themselves in debt as the whole result of their labor. It is impossible to prevent advantage to be taken of the Freedpeople as long as they remain in the state they are in. Many disregard my counsels upon advice from others, seeming not to know whom are their true friends. I assume this is ignorance and that education is the only remedy. I am of the opinion that since my arrival here, I can discover an apparent improvement in this respect not wholly learned from experience.

In addition I would state that the building in use will only answer during a warm weather, and if this school is to be continued a suitable building must be provided for the comfort of all parties, and if this is done I have no hesitancy in saying that a large number of pupils would be in attendance and that the school would be wholly self-sustaining. A complaint is under consideration seemingly of a of a trivial nature, but one which I cannot overlook,