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population, which may raise the question if the schools were not originally designed for the youth or minors.  This is true, that the schools were and are designed for the youth, but it will be perceived, that the influence of these schools through the children, reach the parents and older members of families, and by arousing the reflective and thinking qualities of the mind, create a willingness and disposition on their part to receive instruction, and by an earnest and faithful presentation to them of the duty and importance of acquiring certain primary branches, by the several teachers, engaged in this labor, aided by the agents and officers of the Bureau, the adult freedmen can be gathered together into night schools, and induced to