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share of the population, and can be of but little benefit when the majority is against it. In many localities the few that do favor popular education dare not assist in the work, as it often works bitter animosities and prejudice and is injurious to its supporters if citizens. This prejudice is felt by the Freedmen and a great many are afraid to ask for schools, others are browbeaten out of the idea and yield quietly to the pressure. The Freedmen are as a mass anxious to educate their young but the feeling is not reciprocated. Every school that has been started is under the auspices of the Freedmens Bureau as far as I have learned, and the protection must come from the same source. Every school started by the Bureau has worked good, and been of success; a continuation of the same depends on the efforts of those entrusted in the cause of popular education, to stimulate and carry forward the work. Whether the State of Mississippi can furnish from among its citizens friends enough to popular education