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This necessity still continues, & the Texan Schools have grown to their present dimensions, without debt or expense to the Gov't, & without aid from any extraneous sources whatever.
 
While the plan pursued has marked advantages, it is attended with this serious drawback, that the poorer class of Freedmen, who are unable to pay the small tuition required, do not share in the school privileges. 

The School-attendance has been reduced, in some portions of the State, by the prevalence of the Measles. In other parts the long & excessive rains have been adverse.
 
The Night Schools will dwindle during the summer heats, & until the evenings lengthen, for the pupils are, for the most part, laboring Adults.
 
The hostility at first evinced towards the instruction of the Negro, seemed last winter to abate, & the dawn of a better day was thought to be at hand, when generous co-operation would take the place of prejudice & hate.
 
But for the past two months the opposition has been unyielding, bitter, & steadily on the increase. 

Every expression of hostility, short of actual violence, is unsparingly used, & in all practicable ways those who are striving to impart the elements of knowledge & religion to the recently liberated slave, are made to drink of the cup of social contumely & reproach. 

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