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importance, the teachers can attend some Normal School from October till Jan., and be vastly informed in this way and the effectiveness of their teaching doubled.

The freedmen are responsive to effort in their behalf; they are, generally, ready to aid in supporting their schools to the best of their ability.

Of the need of schools I cannot write too strongly. They are essential to the success of the [[crossed-out]] work [[crossed-out]] scheme of emancipation. I trust that no effort or expense may be spared to push the educational work in this sub district, which has been visibly or rather sensibly affected, by the school and already built up within it.

It whole future has already been materially modified by this work, and will continue to be so more and more; for these educational influences are moral forces of Divine origin, and are the sacred springs of great social movement, determining, largely, the direction of social and political momentum; acting in a thousand

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