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providence, it is done as your friend suggests by "embracing, in its corporation, some of the Official and most respectable people of the state" who will have the supervision and in some respects, the control of the institution, and provided it receives the approval of the citizens of the place where it is proposed to locate. Our people will be opposed to investing an association of persons, not to the "Manor born" with corporate power to give time and directions to the morals, opinions & actions of the colored race in our midst.

Differing as widely, as some do, on questions of social & political equality, there is a distrust between sections in the training of whites - and that distrust will be exposed  when that teaching is to apply to a race different from the Anglo Saxon. With such restrictions as will satisfy our people that the institution your friend suggests cannot be prevented, so as to operate injuriously or pernisciously by our own race & will be made beneficial to the Blacks; I give it as my opinion that an application for corporate privileges will be favorably considered by the Genl Assembly of Ala
Respectfully
Tho. B. Cooper