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is not assisted in any way, either with school houses or teachers, all has been expended in more favorable localities.
The whites of my Dist., with whom I have conversed upon the subject, all express a willingness to have the freedpeople educated, yet such is the rigor and prejudice of southern society, and the complete ostracism, of all men who strive to advance the freedmens interests, politically or socially, that southern people are detered from engaging in any thing of the kind. A northern man could live here and teach a freedmens school with perfect safety and impunity, but a southern man would be discarded and isolate himself from his friends and society, consequently arises naturally the question, "what is to be done to better the condition of the freedpeople here and furnish them facillities of obtaining at least a start on the rudiments of education?" I advise the purchase of at least four school houses in this Sub Dist. by the Government and the procuring of as many teachers. There is not a man or woman, white or black, in my Dist. Capable of teaching, that will consent to do so at any price, they must come from the North or section less subject to prejudice of race and color. A school house should be procured at Pennington and