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some former instances given way to societies promising more than we dared promise, and in every instance have we ultimately felt that the result has been disastrous to the cause of education among the colored people.

I send you a copy of a letter received from Mr. Percy, which will gibe you the view from his standpoint. I am free to express may belief, from a long and inside view of the Episcopal body, that they will do nothing for schools among the Freedmen, which they can not make use of for simply denominational purposes. Their schools, if they have any, must be church schools to build up the Episcopal Church

We cannot pledge $25,000!! for Norfolk; nor have the remotest