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white people to the education of the Freedmen. 

[[note]] Insert above this paragraph above [[/note]] 

On the other hand, [It is but just, that I report the existence of very much genuine earnest feeling on the part of many white men, favorable [[strikethrough]] to it [[/strikethrough]] the education of the freedemn. In the neighborhood of Educators, Chowan County, and throughout that region along the Eastern shore of the State, in many places, schools are being established and taught without molestation or disturbances from any quarter.]

# According to the census of 1860 the colored people of this State number three hundred and sixty thousand five hundred and twenty two. Of this number thirty thousand four hundred and sixty three were free, and three hundred and thirty one thousand and fifty nine were slaves. Certain privileges of special consideration and value were accorded the former class for [[strikethrough]] hundred [[/strikethrough]] years. [Down to 1835 [[strikethrough]] they were permitted, upon the payment of a public tax, to vote at all elections, State and National, and were permitted [[/strikethrough]] 

[[note]] Schools for free negroes [[/note]] 

to establish and maintain [[strikethrough]] among them the schools [[/strikethrough]] for the education of their children. Their schools were sometimes taught by persons of their own color, at other times white persons were employed as their teachers. The good effects of these early advantages,