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to have the Freedmen educated. They informed me that the citizens of the place were ready for it. I thus directed my attention to the details of the work. Rented a house 26 by 36, with a smaller room adjoining, of Mr. B.F. Nance, for two dollars per month. The colored people, members of a Benevolent society of the city, furnished the house with necessary benches. Mr. and Mrs. C.P. Wheeler, experienced teachers from New England are on route to Eufaula from this place, to put the school in immediate operation.

Clayton.
From Eufaula, I proceeded by private conveyance, twenty-two miles westward to Clayton, where resides Judge Clayton, to whom, through your kindness, I had letter of introduction. In him I discovered the source of an influence which is silently working much good to all classes. His celebrated charge to the Grand Jury, delivered in five different counties of eastern Alabama, has done much to bring about a right state of feeling towards the Freedmen. In my communication with him he was the first