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educational advantages- These secured to them and in my judgement their improvement in every regard will astonish the civilized world.

I am gratified to be able to state that the prejudice so apparent one year ago against the capacity of the negro to reap any benefit from Church & School privileges is rapidly disappearing, especially among the more intelligent and substantial classes of whites some of whom have candidly expressed to me the opinion that the race is capable of occupying a higher position in the scale of civilization and intelligence than that of mere "hewers of wood and drawers of water" - I am not at this time prepared to say that this change in public sentiment is attributable to the operation of existing laws or to other considerations, but the fact cannot be denied that the solicitude for the welfare & improvement of the negro is becoming among a certain class of whites, somewhat painful