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Teachers to be obtained. The Bureau according to present arrangement has no power to employ or to pay teachers. The colored people are too poor to pay their own teachers even if they were at command. The various benevolent associations which sprang up at the North and which were the outcroppings of the Christian patriotism & Anti Slavery sentiment of the North, as time passes and the memory of war fades out, these outside & independent associations must become less and less efficient. They are now weaker than they were two years ago, and in time they must eventually cease to exist altogether. It cannot be otherwise. On entering upon the work I put myself in communication with all these associations at the North and urged that they should send additional teachers into this needy field. With one exception they have reported that their means are exhausted and that they can do no more.

The State of Alabama, I think has not recd her full share of help from the Northern Associations. I am not however disposed to complain. It must be borne in mind that as the slow and pausing footsteps of the army advanced in the South, and opened up the way for the establishment of schools, these associations extended their efforts and planted their beacon lights along the Atlantic coast and the banks of the Mississippi and over the interior as safety would permit, and as Alabama