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life, to those which are incident to the plantation. We must make teachers of them, business men, and professional men. The last will be a work for the future, but normal schools and mercantile schools are greatly needed, and can be established at once. - The colored people are very anxious to take care of themselves, but to do this and to make themselves as valuable as white men are to the business world, they must be instructed. They should be encouraged to organize schools, and benevolent societies, and support them out of their own funds, and with the assistance of teachers and helpers from among their own number.

Prominent in the history of the Freedmen, is the Savannah Educational Society, organized immediately after the arrival of Gen. Sherman's Army, at the suggestion of yourself and others. The society has two schools, numbering nearly seven hundred scholars, presided over by colored teachers and until June 1st supported entirely by the Freedmen. These schools are now largely attended and have proved a perfect success. - Teachers were chosen from among the intelligent colored people, and though they were not fitted to instruct in the more advanced studies, they were fully qualified to teach the classes that then came together, and if now they can have the privilege of attending a sort of normal school or class, will soon be prepared