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promote the growth of colored schools the best and most enlightened taking no steps and showing no zeal in the cause.
While the ignorant and vile seize every occasion to throw an obstacle in the way
Another perhaps the chief impediment I have found to the colored school interest is the difficulty of procuring good and reliable teachers. Those who are occassionally available are in most cases incompetent and ignorant. Broken in fortune and reputation with no regard for opinion public or private who condescend to teach the freedmen because nothing else is left there to do; and whose only aim is to acquire a few dollars with the least possible labor. This is entirely owing to the foolish prejudice and want of judgement of the whole people who have left nothing undone to cast an odium over the cause of education and to insult and contemn in every imaginable way those whom philanthropy and a sense of duty have induced.

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