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Office Sub. Asst. Coms'r 
B. R. F and A. L.
Richmond,Texas, November 8th 1868

To Lieut Charles A Vernou
A.A.A. General
Bureau of R. F and A. L. &c,

Education.

There is a small portion of the white community very much in favor of educating the colored children, but a large majority of the whites are strongly and fixedly against it.

If married men (well qualified) could be obtained to teach the freedpeople it would in my opinion, not only add to the morals, but would have a tendency to elevate the manners and social habits of the colored people.

Very much of the bitterness formerly existing against the educating principle is now wearing away in this County (although considerable yet present from the want of reflection). As the most intelligent of the whites are beginning to see that educating the rising generation of the Colored population, will produce a more liberal interchange of friendly and political feeling than that now existing.
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