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that not only Yankee teaching, but all teaching of freedmen was to be prescribed.
It seems to me now, that it would be well to exact a guarantee from the city, that the city shall become responsible for the preservation of any school building that way be erected here, before [[strikethrough]] the present [[/strikethrough]] so eligible a school property as the Masonic Institute shall be put-out of our control. I suppose it is no more liable to restoration than the Medical building at Mobile, and might be held in anticipation of similar need.
The city government, moreover, might well receive a lesson, and have a condition put upon them, with regard to the treatment of colored citizens. The tone of the last Mayor's message with regard to the aid which the city Treasury received, by reason of the promptness and vigilance of the city police, hints at an abuse which the present administration seem ambitious of emulating, and extending. The policemen as a class, are brutal and bigoted,

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