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Office S.a.C  B.R. &c
Columbus April 30. 1868.

Lieut. J.P. Richardson
A.A.A.G.

Public sentiment is decidedly not in favor of the education of the freedmen,  A person who attempts to teach a freedmen loses caste at once and takes rank below a Nigger, in the estimation of the whites.

Nothing has been done to advance education outside of Columbus,  - The freed people are all hard at work on the crops. Money and teachers is the only assistance required, the teachers as a rule are incompetent and inefficient. If the State could be supplied with teachers paid by the Northern Charitable Institutions, and the System carried out as is done in the other Southern States, I think the interests of Education would be much advanced. All however subject to the Supt. of [[crossed out]] Education [[/crossed out]] Schools for the District.

Very Respectfully SC
(Signed) Louis W. Stevenson
S.A.C.