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argument by speech for the elevation of the colored people, would listen to a song containing an argument equally powerful. I may be pardoned by way of comment that such a thoroughly [[?]] Musical organization (not however, for exhibition abroad) in the University learning your name, would be a worthy accession and could be easily secured from the variety of talent and good voices in the institution. In this connection I may mention [[?]] of my arrival in Nashvill just in time [[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]] to visit the last day's exhibition of a fair held for four days under the auspices the Colored Tenn Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Davidson Co. This association at an expense of $15,000 secure grounds North of the city limits and have fitted them up for this purpose. The fair exhibited more largely to results of Agricultural and domestic industry than Mechanical, and, as a beginning, reflected great credit upon those who projected it. The entries were numerous, the attendance large, the premiums valuable, and the influence exerted cannot fail to greatly stimulate the industry and efforts of the colored people. In Kentucky there is a shadow of a State School System, but except in a single city or two, it results in no practical benefits to the colored people. Under certain conditions they are allowed only the taxes accruing from their own