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The argument which I find most telling is this: "The most effective" and "to the Freedmen is that which aids them to do without aid; such aid is most surely and most speedily rendered by establishing among them free schools. The chief difficulty in the way of multiplying their schools to the extent needed, is the cost of finding among them white teachers, and [[strikethrough]] and to da [[/strikethrough]] 2 this must be added also the danger of the health of northern teachers from want of acclimatization. The