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be important. There has been a good deal of talk about establishing a Normal school at Huntsville - for which it has important advantages. Our Board may be able to give direction to a large sum of money, (part of a legacy left for the benefit of the colored people of the U.S.) in the way of the establishment of a Colored Normal School. Huntsville is the place that strikes us most favorably now. An act of incorporation by the legislature of Alabama — embracing in its corporators some of the officials & most respectable people of the state — with the prospect of kind & fair treatment of the institution would probably be essential. The plan would be if the thing went on to secure an ample lot in or near Huntsville & put up at first, plain & substantial buildings & look mainly to the preparing common school teachers — but having in view ultimately as the wants of the people might demand, an institution of a higher grade in the way of education done. This would

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corporator - a member of a corporation, especially a founding or original member