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the Civil Magistrates are, doubtless, impartial men; their education and character are far superior to that of the population at large.
There are no schools in this division sustained by Northern Societies, yet there is no more inviting or important field of philanthropic effort. There should be two thousand children attending school, there are not over two hundred and fifty (250) doing so.
The colored population of this Peninsula occupies a surface above eighty (80) miles long, from seven (7) to twelve (12) miles wide, and is, in some places, quite thickly settled.
They are not floating but domiciled; are very poor, not able, on an average, to give more than twenty five (25) cts per month for the schooling of each child, yet generally anxious to have their children educated.
The difficulties of establishing and supporting schools are the following.

1st The indifference of influential and the opposition of poor whites, who fear for their profit or occupation, should the negroes be educated; and who, in their attempt to suppress the schools, have nothing to fear from public sentiment.

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