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Considerable difficulty was experienced in procuring a building for school purposes in Winchester.  No white man having suitable buildings would let them for that purpose, and this may be regarded as an evidence of the feeling towards the education of the colored people. 

Although no encouragement has been given, nevertheless the schools have prospered, and in many cases a marked degree of proficiency has been attained.  It is believed now that the schools in existence will compare favorably with any others of similar grade in this County.

It is very gradually conceded, even by the enemies of the Freedmen, that the children of the latter are acquiring an education as rapidly as the children of the middle and poor class of whites - so that when the rising generation shall aim at manhoods estate they will be sufficiently advanced to detect and prevent the annoyances to which their fathers are subjected.

2d.  At present it does not appear likely that full and complete justice will be given to Freedmen