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uninteruptedly elsewhere. 

During the Summer of last year on the application of the Trustees of the College preparation was made to vacate the building by the transfer of the schools to churches occupied by the Colored people of Mobile. This was found to be wholly impracticable by season of the public sentiment of that community. Dr. J.C. Nott Dean of the Faculty of the College in an official communication to this Bureau characterized the teachers as "a pack of thieves" little dirty school-masters and mistresses" , and expressed his great anxiety "to get out of a Free Country" Subsequently he declared to Maj Gen Howard in Mobile that he "would rather see the building burned down, than used for its present purposes" or word to that effect. 

The sentiments promulgated by the Dean of the Faculty of reckoned with a single exception by the newspapers mobile culminated among persons of his responsibility in acts of incendiary violence

In July the Methodist Church on St Michael St which on school had been removed was set on fire and burned down.

In August the Presbyterian Church on Dauphin St. also occupied by a school, after an amount of petty violence greatly impairing its usefulness was finally destroyed by the same element of hostility.

In November or December the Zion Methodist Church shared the same fate - directly after a military order restoring possession to the Congregation previously excluded by white Trustees. He has not been alone in strenuously maintaining this position.

These are but the salient points of a continuous series of lesser outrages and interruptions. Towards the end of July the burning


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of buildings occupied by negroes became as prevalent as to call out publics protests lest it "might cut both ways". The undoubted disposition of the Mayor of the city to bring the perpetrators to justice has been apparently thwarted by public sentiment, no arrests having been made in any instance within the knowledge of the Bureau. The attempt to remove the school was therefore abandoned but every facility was ordered to be given to the Trustees to repair the buildings or guard such property as was thought to the improperly exposed. They have never availed themselves of either but in their absence it is believed their interest have been so for cared for that no depredations have occurred.

During the period covered by this report there has been some correspondence in reference to leasing the college from the Trustees the material portions of which are transmitted herewith. 

The schools in the building are and have been the object of careful scrutiny by this Bureau, and of the greatest solicited to the colored people of Mobile. Their conduct and usefulness has, so far as known, been of the highest order. A copy of their last report accompanies this paper. 

The original right above mentioned, the equitable title of the colored people to come educational facilities, the failure of civil justice, the value of these schools the impossibility of their transfer, and the want of evidence of increased security, led me to the conclusion I still hold. That it is not my duty unless so intimated in orders, to restore the building to the applicants at present.

I am General, 

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