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what I will do, but I can give no definite answer, as my circumstances will not allow me to spend the most of my time without compensation. My wish is to spend January & February in teaching the adults to read & write, the spring months when they must go to work in organizing sunday schools for a thousand or more & supply them with books, & then after the crop is laid by to have a week day school for 5 months. But it is impossible to have many of the most industrious & deserving together in county schools in the busy season. 
I have recently procured a new supply of books from the A. Secondary School  Union, & will continue to do what I can in a private way. I feel very much for them in their ignorant & destitute condition, & also we have cause to feel concerned for our own safety if they are not properly taught. At present there is much kind feeling existing on both sides as the bulk of them were raised among us & not a few in our own families. And sir I have been surprised to see how eager & apt they are to learn. It seems that a kind Providence has prepared their minds & hearts for the great change that has taken place in their condition, & will overrule it all for the good of both classes. Indeed I always thought that southern slavery was a greater curse to the whites than to the blacks. A large number of them are truly pious & are noble examples for imitation.
A few weeks ago I wrote to the A.S.S. Union to know if they could aid me as an agent for a few months in the spring to push this work in this & adjoining counties; but while they expressed themselves as fully convinced of its importance, they said they were out of funds & could only furnish me a few elementary books. As the sunday school system is so well adapted to the hard times