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ceptional scholar (and there will be about one in thirty) should be 

 given an opportunity at the higher schools of becoming teachers, 

 preachers, doctors, shoemakers, wheelwrights, etc. They should also 

 be fitted to fill the better positions in manufacturing and mining 

 establishments. Before entering these higher institutions the pupil 

 should be made to pass satisfactory matriculation examinations and it 

 should be shown that he is of good character. 



Such schools as Hampton and Tuskegee may be established in each 

 of the southern states. In them industrial education should be espe- 

 cially emphasized, and the training of preachers, doctors and teachers 

 (who wish to teach in the lower schools) should be provided for. These 

 schools will be for the colored people what the universities are for 

 the white people. They may be supported through taxation of the 

 negro property and through the munificence of philanthropists in- 

 terested in the colored race. About one fifteenth of the school money 

 expended now is derived from taxation of negro property. Whether 

 there is a necessity of having colored lawyers for the colored race is a 

 question. There are already institutions in which an exceptionally 

 clever negro may get a legal education. Any legal question may be 

 settled by white lawyers, who for a long time to come will be more 

 skilful in law and consequently the better able to represent their clients 

 in the courts than colored lawyers. Further, I believe the negroes 

 prefer to have their disputes settled by white people. But the teaching 

 of the colored children and in most cases the care of the sick will 

 be left to the colored people. 



Whatever education a colored man possesses has been given to him 

 by the people of the south ; the present system for his education is due 

 to the people among whom he lives, and this guiding influence must 

 of necessity always be felt. 



As shown below, the south is now spending annually at least $4,000,- 

 000 towards the education of the colored race. This money has been 

 spent through the direction of the superintendent of public instruction 

 in each state, and its disbursement has been supervised by the super- 

 intendents of common schools in the various counties and cities. These 

 men have almost invariably exercised their duties with zeal and 

 honesty. It seems desirable that these officers have charge of the funds 

 for the education of both white and colored children as hitherto has 

 been the case. Their salaries may be somewhat increased so that 

 additional help in the way of secretaries and stenographers may be 

 procured. Thus the expenses for the management of the fund for 

 the education of colored children will be a minimum. The state super- 

 intendent should make annual reports of all moneys expended to some 

 head man at Washington. 



The office of the Commissioner of Education at Washington has 



