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I returned to Brashear City on Wednesday morning, and being informed by the Q. M. that the Boat would not go to Franklin before Saturday I decided to go by land and leave to forage to come up on the Boat.  I found the roads extremely bad - in places almost impassable.  I have decided to establish schools at the following places as soon as suitable houses can be obtained; vis; Pattersonville, Centerville and Franklin - all in St. Mary's Parish.  I have been offered the Baptist Church in Franklin - which will accommodate 200 Children - for one hundred and eighty ($180) dollars a year.  It will cost sixty ($60) dollars to repair it which will be deducted from the rent.  This house has not been used since the war commenced - and the Society is wholly scattered - and the house is claimed by one man.  I shall be able to obtain a house at Centerville which place I shall visit in a few days.

Thus far I have found the mass of the people favorable to the scheme of Educating the Freedmen - Some few are warm friends of the measure.  They say. "If the Negro is to be free it will be better for both classes that he be Educated."  There are a few others - and they seem to be the leading class - who are strongly opposed to it.  I expected this - But at the same time I am happily disappointed to find so many in favor of it, and I hope by a conciliatory course to be able to overcome their prejudices, or, at least, to render their opposition nutral.