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strong arm and will to protect and sustain them against popular prejudice - and with which to gain a livelihood. Should the Bureau be withdrawn from their aid and protection, at this time, while such an antagonism of feeling exists between the races, I fear the result - as far as the promotion and welfare of the colored man is concerned.

I had received the impression when I first came to this division that the necessary preparations had been made for the opening of the colored schools for their Fall term; but this failure [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] to commence the session when the proper time arrived led me to inquiry, when to my surprise, I found nothing had been done in that direction. No charitable Association has, as yet, interested itself toward the support of a school in this Division, for the coming Fall and Spring Terms, I therefore urged the colored people in this vicinity to call meetings and take such means and measures as were in their power to organize and support a school on their own responsibility. This has been done in two or three localities, but it was found that their poverty promised their doing more than