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Office S.a.C. B.R &c
Wharton, Sept 30 1868

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

On this subject [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] there is no change of feeling for the better. I think it may be safely said that the whites do not wish to see the colored people educated and that they will not voluntarily take any steps to promote the education of the freedpeople. The freedpeople themselves are making no great exertion in this direction not even such exertion as I think they might make in spite of their impoverished means. They expect and rely too much perhaps on aid from the Bureau and seem inclined to wait for the time to come when they shall have free schools: Had they such schools I think there is not the least doubt about their willingness to attend them.

Very Resp &c
(Signed) Nesbit B. Jenkins
S.a.C.