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decided by disinterested parties, I anticipate considerable trouble from that summer towards the latter part of the season. Schools have been gradually diminishing in number & efficiency since July 1867 at which time the bureau stopped payers Teachers salaries, and at not time in the past 200 years has there been so little doing in educational matters as at this time. Competent teachers cannot be reassured without an assurance of support and even those who would teach for a trifling compensation have been forced to abandon their schools on account of the inability of the Freedmen to pay. 

Unless it be under the auspices of some benevolent Organization, much cannot be done until after the present crop is harvested.  When if it proves as good as present appearances indicate that it may be, the Freedmen will be in a fair condition to support schools and there is no doubt but that when they are able. They will cheerfully and eagerly avail themselves of every opportunity afforded to educate their children and themselves,
Quite a number of Freedmen have expressed a desire to avail themselves of