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3 The building is new, and very comfortable, as well as very suitable for school purposes. I think it very desirable to put the freed people in the way of helping themselves. teaching them to rely upon themselves, By this means they will the more highly value what they have. They will have the satisfaction of feeling that they have obtained it by individual exertion; and above all they will be taught independence of character, an element in which they are necessarily somewhat deficient at present. With these convictions, I think it desirable that where competent colored Teachers can be found they should be employed. Besides schools established upon this place will have the sympathy and cooperation of some of the white citizens, and the approval of the enlightened part of community, while those, in which white Teachers