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improve their opportunities they will soon be able to open schools and themselves become teachers. I am fully impressed with the conviction that native colored teachers can alone reach that great mass of colored children; and I fully believe that the Northern friends of the education of the Freedmen can accomplish their object most speedily and effectually by establishing schools for the training of colored female teachers. Such schools under the care of energetic and competent Northern female teachers, would very soon furnish a large number of native teachers, who would in their turn put still larger numbers, in elementary branches, for the same work. These normal schools should be made up of those now attending the schools who are the most promising and I am satisfied that large numbers could be found who would justify the hope and expectations of the friends of universal liberty and education.
My Sabbath school at Goochland C.H. is in a flourishing condition. I employ some of the colored pupils who attend the day school taught by Miss Morris, who succeed admirably as teachers, the girls being far superior to the boys in their tact and capacity to teach.
Very Respectfully, 
Your Obt Sevt
E.C. Morse 
A.S.A. Comr

Brig. Genl O. Brown
Assist Commissioner