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was among the last to surrender their resources were well nigh exhausted before this State was ready to receive their benevolent efforts. Hence Alabama has not received an equal share with other states. I mention this fact not to censure but to explain why less has been done in Alabama than in other of the Southern States.

If these teachers cannot be supplied by the Bureau, nor by the freedmen, nor by the benevolent associations, how can they be supplied  I can conceive of but one practicable method viz, The education of native colored teachers in the South. White teachers cannot be imported from the north, the climate, the state of public sentiment, and the want of means for their support, all preclude the possibility of supplying the wants of this state in this way. We must therefore it seems to me erect good buildings at important points and convert them as speedily as possible into normal schools for the training of native teachers. This being done, in the course of two years, there will be an hundred or more young men & women of color who will be prepared to go out into the interior and rural districts and teach primary schools. The colored people will provide buildings and pay a small compensation, and thus the work of education for the long degraded freedpeople of the