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be absurd to say that they have not the right. [[strikethrough]] to do so [[/strikethrough]] For otherwise they might purchase Churches for the colored people in the large cities of the South, and if any who are now teaching the colored people there should object they would be deprived the privilege of instructing any of their colored children. And a similar kind of reasoning applies to the forcibly taking children from one School and compelling them to attend another. Suppose that the Methodist Episcopal Church, opens a colored School in her Church here, and some of the Members of that Church place their children in that School, can we suppose that the Freedmen's [[strikethrough]] Burue [[/strikethrough]] Bureau will compel them to leave the M.E. Church School, and compel them to attend schools taught by an irresponsible Association that may have only an ephemeral existence. And if the Bureau will not compel children to leave a School taught by a most incompetent colored