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When Mr. Haskell came here they rented a log house, bought benches and desks, bookcase and had the benefit of his services for four days. Their benches and desks, were taken possession of for the payment of a whole months' rent ($15) I am satisfied by what I have heard the freedmen say that Mr. Haskell was not satisfactory to them and that he was not a proper man to to command their respect
I have in addition to the application of the freedmen for a teachers a recommendation signed by some of the most responsible white  citizens in the town That a school may be organized here for the education of the freedmen. While they express a desire to have the freedmen educated they are not willing [[strikethrough]] they are not willing [[strikethrough]] to subscribe one dollar for that purpose. I have but little faith in their expressed desire to have the freedmen educated as most all that I know are gaining a livelihood  by taking advantage of the freedmen's ignorance to cheat them out of the value of their labor.
The freedmen all see the disadvantage they labor under, and are very anxious to remedy it as far as they are able. Of course two or three months schooling would