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the benefits of congressional appropriations for schools, thereby reducing the population of the rural districts and depriving the country of its needed labor [[?]] the laborer to the [[?]] of engaging in new employment. there is no room for rent or we would have been into it the 1st of this month & if there was it would cost as much to rent it for one year as it will cost to build the house which we have in contemplation, for the reason that the objection to educating the race has an additional one [[?]]. that the crops would be [[?]], wood burned and depredations committed by them in the vicinity of their house & playground. That objection is answered in our location of the proposed house. 
Last winter I urged upon the Legislature of the State to [[??]] for [[??]] white & colored children. a Law was peaked by the lower house [[??]] $80,000. but failed to peak the upper houses, law teaching whites who are too poor to buy schoolbooks, (or think so) & some of them have no idea of ever trying to pay tuition, as a general thing the colored people are financially better off than a large [[??]] of whites. for the whites owe more in many cases than their [[??]] are worth. and the freedman is out of debt, & what he can make he can use as he pleases. & the fear of sheriff does not prevent his making [[??]]. as in case of many whites. After troubling you so much I will close by saying that if our case comes within the lines of your efforts towards aiding the [[??]] named, we will [[??]] into any reasonably required security or arrangement. securing your aid and cooperation, (I have neglected to say that, the school will number [[??]] [[??]] than 1000 adults at night school and from 100 to 200 for the day school if our house will seat them. We feel determined to have the school & wish to make the burden fall as lightly upon the heads of families as possible: there will not be any white students