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to enlighten the darkness and ignorance of the freedman. Instead of encouraging good and faithfull teachers they drive them from the field. When their places in too many instances are filled by the sordid and the mean, who too low to be hurt by insult and indifference to contempt demoralise those whom they pretend to teach, and are in fact their worst enemies. Altogether I do not consider the educational prospects of my sub district very flattering The price paid for tuition is altogether too low the universal amount [[crossed-out]] amount [[/crossed out]] paid by each scholar being fifty cents per month now the average number of scholars who would probably attend for any length of time each school would never I think go over fifty and I think it cannot be doubted that the salary derived from this source would be deemed by any really competent teacher paltry and insufficient; especially when we