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established: they are, from required tuition beyond the reach of the needs of the people: their success, or rather, failure simply indicates the present inability of freedmen to support their own schools. and shows that aid from Government and from the North is still indispensable to any effective effort in the way of education. I believe that a tax of twenty five cent pr. month might be reasonably required; but it would be very difficult to collect even that. 
The rural districts are in great need of schools; they contain the most thrifty, best disposed class of freedmen who are today and constantly appealing to those in whose power it is to give them education. The young are growing up to meet new and great responsibilities without the ability to read or write, this to understand their position, but will be thrown a mighty mass of ignorant blind sovereign power upon the nation - to be turned by shrewd politicians to their own (the people's and nations) injury and to the profit and advantage of unprincipled men. 
The obstacles to the establishment