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Males, 4.



The foregoing list shows how nearly equally the teachers sent to North Carolina are divided between the three organizations to which they stand accredited. It has been to me and to my associates a matter of solid satisfaction to see these important agencies so kindly co-operating. It is like the soldiers of the regiments fighting side by side, though gathered from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. We are commencing the grandest work of education the world ever witnessed; unspeakably the most important ever entrusted to men; and nothing is more suitable and wise than to prosecute it with a spirit free from all jealousy and distrust. If any one will cast out devils in the name of the Lord in a region where devils so much abound, who shall dare forbid him because he followeth not with us? No arithmetic can compute the amount of blessing conferred