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may say [[?]] the [[?]] of truth that all aid outside of the Bureau is hardly worthy of mention, were it not for the Bureau there would be less than two thousand pupils in our colored schools, but as it is my June Report shows ten thousand in school daily. - All of the boasted benevolence of the North is teaching less than two thousand Colored children in this first State, Hence the Bureau was compelled to open & support schools independently or we should have none. I do not wish to cast any reflections upon the gigantic systems of Charities of the Northern people. I love them too well. but I do complain bitterly that this great State has not received its share in the smallest degree of the Expenditures made in the South for the education off freedmen.
The American Missionary Associations have maintained but eight (8) [[?]] in the State in the past year. The Pillsbury Commission the same number, The Cleveland [[?]]. Your [[?]] communication has not had a single teacher. This lack of [[?]] come from want of cooperation on the part of the Bureau General [[?]] has been most liberal in his dealings with Northern Benevolent Associations, The Bureau has paid the rent of every School building in the State, it has put furniture into them all; for these two items no Society has paid out a dollar. It has paid the rent of dwelling houses used as "Teacher's Houses" by Benevolent Societies in every instance. It has transported their teachers to and from their fields of labor. What

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more can be done to show our unwillingness to word with any agency looking to the elevation of the colored race? And yet all that we have we have saved to the [[?]]ies of Northern Societies. I do not here one word of this in any other [[?]] a spirit of rejoicing. I am glad that we have been able to do what we have.
I feel that we are all working in the same good cause and in the light of the above facts I write you most cordially to send a score of good teachers into the State, and they shall have the most hardy co - operation of the bureau. Never was there a time when we can send back such large results for labor extended to freedmen. We are working and hoping that Alabama will be restored t o the Union at an early day, and that the new State will provide an efficient system of common schools for all classes. Will you not aid us in this critical period? We have passed two turbulent years in darkness and alone, but day dawns, and the promise of a better future awaits us. We write you to aid us in bringing forth the tap stone with rejoicing. I have published several reports but have none on hand. You shall be remembered next time. Do let me hear from you again soon, and excuse his delay which has been unavoidable. Believe me, My dear sir,
Very Respectfully
Your obdt Serv't
Superintendent Education 

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