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there were one hundred paupers in the County. There would not be more than twenty five who could be got into the poor house. Under such a system it is very easy to foresee great suffering among this class of freedmen.

The education of the freedmen is being provided for by the establishment of Sabbath schools at the different churches in the county.

The prejudice against allowing the occupation of the Churches for this purpose is fast dissolving, but a feeling of jealousy [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] of outside interference is almost universal. Northern papers and school books are received with some suspicion, and scrutinized closely to make sure there is nothing incendiary in their contents.

For this 
For this reason, while the people are taking the matter actively in hand, I have refrained from any interference; feeling that it would perhaps retard the progress of the schools, altho, I think I am not personally obnoxious to the people.

There are no daily schools yet established, but a freedman who has been lately teaching in Clarkesville Va is getting up a school in his village, & he has already obtained about forty scholars at one dollar each, paid by the parents. 

I do not know what his qualifications are, further than he can read and write, but I thought it best to encourage him and test the experiment.

A few young ladies of the poorer classes have expressed their desire to teach daily schools, but the salary appears to be more their  object, than the education of the freedmen - and they 
 

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