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conception of the broad catholic and cordial christian spirit, in which the education of the Freedman should be conducted, that all its schools are made purely and positively denominational, the modes and methods of conducting them entirely Episcopalian, their animus and aim wholly sectarian. So much is this the case, that the desks of their school rooms are loaded with the Prayer Book of their church thrust as it is into the hands of young boys and girls, who, unable yet to read or spell, with any degree of proficiency, are asked to accept the sentiments therein contained, and commit their little untaught souls to the tenets of their religions creed. To accomplish this aim the more thoroughly, there is had at the opening and closing of the schools each day a ceremony peculiarly Episcopal. If what I have said is more especially true of any one of the schools of the Commission than the rest, it is of the school taught by Miss Swetland, assisted by Mrs Taney at Raleigh. These teachers, I understand, receive their instructions from Dr Smith who is about to found a normal school for the benefit of the Freedmen, to be located