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probably that could be devised, besides securing to the Association teachers of piety, benevolent feeling, and thorough qualification for so important a work.

That you have the best wishes of the Officers of the Association, and that they will aid you in every way in the school enterprise in Texas be assured. I am perfectly satisfied, that the officers at New York are pure men, actuated by the most undoubted piety, and love of mission enterprises, and that they possess in the fullest sense the confidence and regard of all evangelical Christians throughout the country, and good men everywhere.

There is nothing of a sectarian character intended or permitted in any field of their labor, they are good men, animated by a good hope, of doing good under the guidance of "a wise Christian benevolence", and "to the full extent of the means, furnished by the friends of the colored people."