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Let anyone, black or white, become a member of them, who pays a dollar a year, and take measures to secure from the more affluent larger contributions. In this way steps may be taken towards making the enterprise self-sustaining.

Fourth: immediate measures should be made through the press and other channels of influence to insure legislation both in the States and in the General Government to provide an educational fund, as in Massachusetts, New York, and other States.

The General Government has set off to each free state a certain amount of land for agricultural education, and why not in the Southern States make appropriation for the more general purposes of a free school system?  Can the treasures of the country be expended on any thing so favorable to our

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I didn't know what to do about the markings in the left margin - they don't seem to be writing