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and if so, it appears to my mind to give the colored schools a status and prestige which, otherwise, they would not have obtained after years of struggle.  It will go far to wipe away  the stigma which, in this section, more or less, has unquestionably cleared to the teachers of colored children, and which has been one of the hardest things these noble pioneers have been called upon to bear.  It will give to the schools in this City, a stability and certainly which it has been impossible for them to possess hitherto, in the numerous changes which the present system has rendered unavoidable.  It will, if carried out honestly and faithfully ease the minds of the friends of the colored people as to the educational prospects of the future, and it will be an example that will spread over the State, and which will tend, I fully believe to the dissipation of predjudice, and the establishment of schools in all localities, when the children of freedmen can be taught as freely as the children of white people.  It will end forever the burning of colored school-houses, and it will silence the clamor of the vile and illiterate.  It will substitute a system which will be nourished and supported by its own internal forces, for one which has no inner vitality, and which is sustained only by extraordinary effort, and agency which can be but temporary from their very nature.

These are my views imperfectly and hastily expressed,