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so widely extended system of schools, there will be no conflict of ideas, because, with southern bred teachers, pupils will be led along a narrow, dreary, almost meaningless course of study, and, of course, learn no more than their teachers were taught. At this point let me suggest that the philosophy as well as vital importance of Normal Schools conducted by Northern well trained educators appears. This is the Spring of Northern power in the South; - the point to press for now, in order to obtain results in the future. I cannot see how any one familiar with the state of things in the South can fail to regret the withdrawal of the Bureau, in view of its being the channel through which the negro and loyalist receive most of the real good which government is doing for them; the indispensable protector and ally of all northern work of a moral or educational character in the South: the recourse, and when military power is
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