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This money will be needed to purchase lumber and other building materials and pay a carpenter for the inside work. They can and will supply their own teacher as there is one of their members interested who is qualified to teach them, and will officiate in carrying on the day and evening school and preach to them on the sabbath for what his own people can pay him. 
All they need is money to erect their house. Mr. David G. Carr is taking a great deal of interest in the matter and will do all he can to get the school in operation. The public sentiment with reference to schools for Freedmen is I think fast becoming more favorable. In conversing with the Whites upon the subject a majority of them say, to use their own language "the negro is turned loose among us, the best citizens we can make of them the better it will be for us."
But they (the Whites) are not able the help them much in a pecuniary way, as they are all very poor and many will have to deprive themselves of necessaries to pay their taxes.

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