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teach and discipline them in all that pertains to the management of the house and farm, including their own personal habits. In short besides its [[?]] advantages this school [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] will cut off [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] pupils entirely from their old world of semi heathenism and make each a respectable member of a well ordered christian [[house?]], [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] train them in the duties of this relation, until more refined tastes and better habits shall be thoroughly confirmed [[strikethrough]] in them [[/strikethrough]].
Public Sentiment.
In the last annual Report it was stated that an important advance had made in public sentiment in favor of the education of the Freedmen. It is necessary now to report an apparent reaction;  Hostility - The unusual [[strikethrough]] indications of [[/strikethrough]] hostility to freedmen's schools during the last few months [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] is probably due partly to the passions of the hour, and partly to a very general dislike of the public school system of the North. Not a newspaper in the state, except two or three recently established by men of northern sentiments, has published a line in favor of a [[strikethrough]] free [[/strikethrough]] public school system for all the people, and even the State Association of Teachers in their annual convention did not allude to the subject. Never the less, we have reason to believe, that with good laws, wisely administered, a few years will show a complete revolution of opinion upon this subject.
The desire of the freedmen for the advantages

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