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impressed with its condition and the efficiency of its teachers. I left Chattanooga at 5 O'clock P.M. on the 27th and arrived at Nashville on the next morning at 3.00 O'clock A.M. and reported at the office at 830 O'clock.

In my travels from point to point; in my inspections and visits to schools &c. &c. I have tried to observe closely and accurately the conditions of the colored people, and the effects of liberty, free schools and the efforts of the Bureau and its officers to secure their legal rights, upon them; and I am constrained to say that I think all things are working well together for their good and the ultimate benefit of the section in which they live. Of course much remains to be done; and I am of opinion were the moral and material aid now furnished by the Government through the Bureau to the cause of the educatation of the colored race withdrawn, the whole matter would collapse, and the beneficiaries fall back into ignorance and laziness; as the impetus already given to education is not yet great enough to make it self-sustaining against the efforts of its numerous and determined enemies; all that has already been done would be lost and