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These houses will be burned, or go into decay and in a few years scarcely a vestige will be left of all our expenditure; besides I find that school houses are not the great want of the freedmen in the South. In this warm climate they can with their own means and personal efforts erect or rent such buildings as will meet their present necessities. I am well satisfied therefore that the better plan is to concentrate our efforts on certain leading points, and expend our means in the erection of good substantial brick buildings which will stand for years, and which will be protected by public sentiment from destruction. These public school buildings will be in part at least, High Schools or Academies, where men & women will be trained up, and qualified for the work of teaching. This I believe to be the true policy of the Bureau in this department, of our work & in this State. If this plan meets with your approval I hope you will as far as possible favor the applications made for appropriations to important points.

Teachers
This is the great want of the State of Alabama  We find no difficulty in waking up an interest among the freedpeople on the subject of education  We are almost daily in receipt of application for teachers. Schools could be organized all over the State and houses furnished to a great extent by the colored people themselves if we could furnish the Teachers. But how are the