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under the circumstances: that a race kept in total ignorance for more than a century should conduct themselves as well as they do, should be so earnest in their desires and so eager and persevering in their efforts to acquire education is a matter of astonishment. Many Freedmen have left plantations and congregated in the City, many of them as might be expected to become vagrants and paupers, but it has come to my knowledge that a far greater number have come to the City for the purpose of Educating themselves and their children in the schools which abound and thrive under the auspices of the Bureau.

The Freedmen cannot be condemned for this, and so long as the planters neglect to make provision for the education of Freedmen or permit them to make it themselves, so long will this continue. With a few honorable exceptions I know of no effort being put forth on the part of Planters to