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distinction Southern people design should be observed in the social and political relation between the races. Our purpose is not to admit the colored, to social & political equality with the white race; in every other respect we intend to invest them with every privilege necessary to their comfort, happiness & protection, and will all necessary legal rights and remedies for their preservation.

The better men and women we can make of them, the better it will be for them & for us. To make them good and useful people they should be informed as to their moral, religious & domestic duties; this they should have and it is our duty so to provide as to impart this information, this can be done thro encouragement of schools amongst them & this however, for the time being, will have to be done by private enterprise; our depressed condition precludes the possibility of public or of state appropriations.

While I am of opinion that no legislative action can soon be taken, by this State, to extend to them the benefits of common school appropriations, I do not not suppose that any serious objection will be interposed to granting corporate provisos to good men, [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] to erect and carry on a litteracy institution for the purposes of their education. I see no good reason for such objection