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to believe that your "Slave Drivers" are the embodiment of the sum of all villains" with their ideas of negro suffrage, of social equality, of miscegenation, of [[??]], and every mischievous outgrowth of the fanaticism of that clime, prolific in such baneful fruits, they will infuse their things into the minds of the negroes, and who can calculate or fortell the result? If we do not mean to suffer the distinction of races to be destroyed, and permit equality in every respect, we must keep these men from among us. We can keep them out only by ourselves giving these people the instruction they need."
Yet the fact was apparent that Bishops and Clergymen were quite in advance in most cases of their congregation on this subject and hence were obliged to work very moderately and cautiously in the new cause.
In March, a corps of able teachers was obtained from the Cleveland Union Aid Commission. They opened a flourishing School at Taladega and reinforced the teachers at Montgomery. From this period our Schools continued to increase, meeting with less opposition from Month to Month.
The June Report was the last one made before the summer vacation, it showed the follow in figures:
Whole number of Schools 35