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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