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and another near Terrebonne Station. The citizens there are very anxious to have their schools started in the houses prepared by them for their children, and it is rather hard and trying to their feelings to find themselves persistently excluded.

I very respectfully urge that this matter be immediately attended to, and any other cases of this kind, for if they are not, I shall be compelled, though reluctantly, to apply to the military authorities for redress, which I shall do in a very few days, if I must. The whites want their children in school as well as the colored.
I am the friend of the colored people and their schools; but I am also the friend of the schools of the white people. I must see them organized, and I trust no unnecessary obstruction will be left in their way.