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To either of these you may address representations of the needs in your district, with confidence that your advice will receive just attention.

It was my privilege as the then Sec'y of the Northwestern Commission to inaugurate the educational movements at Mobile and Montgomery, and if our means had permitted, I should have supplied an hundred teachers to the State ere this. The work was well begun, but we were already largely connected with other enterprises, the cost of which so increased with the cessation of the war, that I was very reluctantly compelled to leave our pioneers without reinforcements.

Since the National Organization was effected, additional energy has been infused into all the branches, and several new organizations have been made.

Among these is a very promising branch at Cleveland, O. the Sec'y of which with five teachers and a quantity of stores will go southward next week.

I was advising him when your note came to hand, not to locate his teachers until he had reached Montgomery and conferred with General Swayne. I think you may expect to see him within a few weeks. Meanwhile,