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and in advanced studies, is only needed, with occasional aid and the fostering care of this Bureau, to make them an entire and most remarkable success.

In this connection it may be said that the thirst for knowledge among the negroes generally is so great that a spelling book in every colored family of the South (Should they be set in families) would undoubtedly become an effective self teacher - They would study it eagerly with such assistance as could be found, and ere long nearly the whole population, as thus taught, would have sufficient knowledge to read the simpler portions of the Word of God.  Shall we ask the benevolent for these spelling books and with 500.000 families try this grand experiment?

Industry

4. The industry of the negroes is apparent wherever opportunity has been given them.  On the Islands especially, their well tilled fields of Cotton and corn are spread out on every side.  Whether as hired laborers, or at work on their own small crops, the quick stroke of free labor is noticeable as in contrast with what we well remember of the tardy movement of former times - 

On the mainland they have considerable crops of rice -