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so that they can have things their own way in regard to the colored folks. There are about 170 colored pupils in our two Freedmen schools in this town; many of whom are orphans & half-orphans, whose fathers were killed by the Rebels; and they have come here to attend school. Many of them are working hard mornings & evenings, to procure a scanty subsistence, and at the same time endeavoring to improve their minds, and elevate their condition in life. I think they deserve credit for this and should be encouraged in it; but the present Bureau Agent here (Jno. McCauley), says he intends binding all the orphans & other poor colored children out to the old settlers in the country, as "Apprentices",- which down here means "Slaves". They are to labor for their victuals & clothes; and receive no education at school. Their primary object is (as I have heard it from their own lips),- to break up the "nigger schools", "send the damned Yankee nigger Teachers back to the north", and "keep the niggers in ignorance" as long as possible.