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as "Your Guards of Freedom" are organized in the schools. Superintendent Fiske assured me that this work should be taken up at once.]

*  The appereciation of education entertained by the Freedmen is not only exhibited in the attendance of their children upon the schools organized and supported by others for their benefit, but by what they themselves are doing to build up and sustain educational enterprises.

[Of the one hundred and fifty eight teachers now employed in the schools, ninety three are colored. Of this number several are from the North, but most of them belong in North Carolina. Sixty four of these one hundred and fifty eight teachers are supported and paid by Northern Societies; the other ninety four by the Freedmen.

Of the seventy school-houses now in use, forty three are furnished by the Freedmen, the value of which is not less than $13,579. The amount expended per month for the support of these schools by the Freedmen can not be less than $1300.00.] In further illustration of the educational feeling of the Freedmen and their purpose to help themselves, I would state that [at Raliegh, the capi-