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consider the inconveniences not to use a harsher
expression they must put up with and the 
banishment they must consign themselves to to obtain it.
The original price paid by each scholar 
was two dollars ($2 [[?]]) but as the number of 
scholars fell off either from the inability or 
reluctance of their parents to pay teachers 
were compelled to lower their charge until 
it rapidly declined from the price just stated to 
the present one of fifty cents. and even 
this small sum I am sorry to say is paid with 
as much if not more difficulty and reluctance 
than when the charge for each pupil was two dollars. It has unfortunately too 
been reported to the freedpeople that in a short 
time they will have free schools; and therefore 
they feel a [[still?]] a greater reluctance to in-
convenience themselves for a benefit; which they 
have been led to believe will soon be con-
ferred upon them gratis.