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of the progress made. Our cause is meeting with less opposition, prejudice is going away and colored schools are bringing to their aid the moral support of many right-minded men in various parts of the states. At Gainesville I found the Pastors of the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches heartily in favor of educating the blacks. In Dr. Stillman's Church, the Presbyterian, I found a large Sabbath School, in which the colored children were taught to read from Websters Spelling books in connection with Bible lessons. At Demopolis the citizens have contributed their funds to aid in the erection of a school house for the colored people. In the New Era, a paper recently started in their city, takes the stand that freedmen must be taught to read. 

At Tuskegee, the Mayor of the city, aided by his fellow citizens, has charge of a large Sabbath school and is in earnest in teaching colored children to read. Our teacher at Talladega, Mrs. E.W. Hopson writes. "The morning the troops left, I went to see Capt. Taylor to know what I had better do; he advised me to leave immediately as there would be no protection for me. As soon as the citizens heard of this, two, among the most prominent came to see me, and assure me that I would be protected