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Office S.A.C. B.R &c
Columbus. Sept 30 1868.

Lt. Chas. A. Vernou,
A.A.A.G.

The feeling is indifferent as to whether the f.m. are educated or not - though none of the schools in the Co. have been interfered with, nothing has been done by the whites to support education, except in one locality. - At Osage a lot was given by a white man, Dr Akins for a School house and Church The colored people are doing little to educate themselves - more than the purchase of books and such as are able to pay the Bureau tuition - The amt. permitted to be charged pr capita - A better class of teachers is wanted to the standard of the profession and thus allay the prejudice which the white people have to the "nigger teachers."

Very Resp &c
(Signed) Louis W Stevenson
S.A.C.