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There are a large number of freed people in this neighborhood and a school may be organized as soon as a competent teacher can be secured. Other schools too might be organized on Carly and at Wharton if the great want us of teachers can be supplied
I am of opinion that three or four more in addition to the one we have would be sufficient to bring education almost to the door of all the surrounding freedmen who are willing to confer upon their children the benefits of learning. But still I think that to make the benefit general and the experiment of educating the freed people all successful, some plan for the adoption of free schools must be adopted when the colored people compelled to support then will be more anxious than they are present that their children shall attend and reap the advantages from the institutions their own efforts and means, alone sustain.
Progress turning her steps in this direction