For the fifty years of the old Freedmen's Aid Societynow the Board of Education for Negroesit has run these schools, eighteen of them now, with five thousand seven hundred and two earnest students enrolled, on a double theory.

And you mean that you were under the Freedmen's Aid Society when you were going to schoolis that it?" "That's it," said Pastor Driver, with a gleaming smile.

From "Inauguration of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln.

From "Inauguration of the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln.

There Brutus found him in 43, when attending philosophical lectures in order to hide his political intrigues; and though Horace was a freedman's son, Brutus gave him the high dignity of a military tribuneship.

Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Committee.

Among the most noteworthy of Douglass's later addresses were the oration at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln in Washington in 1876, which may be found in his Life and Times; the address on Decoration Day, New York, 1878; his eulogy on Wendell Phillips, printed in Austin's Life and Times of Wendell Phillips; and the speech on the death of Garrison, June, 1879.

Long, however, before the work of political reconstruction had begun, a brigade of Yankee schoolmasters and schoolma'ams had invaded Dixie, and one of the latter had opened a Freedman's Bureau School in the town of Patesville, about four miles from Needham Green's cabin on the neighboring sandhills.

There were many who came to learn the new gospel of education, which was to be the cure for all the freedmen's ills.

Previous to that time, there had been a Freedman's Bureau school and a Presbyterian missionary school, but these had been withdrawn when the need for them became less pressing.

[Footnote 1: According to the report of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission published by S.G. Howe, an unusually large proportion of the colored population believed in education.

Report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Committee.

I don't know whether it was your little freedmen's meal-bags, or Miss Letitia's organizing and executive genius, or the cup of cold water you spoke of, orit's just occurred to methe fuss I had over my waterfall that day, trying to make it into a melon; but I had the most extraordinary time endeavoring to pay you a visit.

Down South it was, and there you were, organizing and executing, after all, on the most tremendous scale, some kind of freedmen's institution.

It's named after the Secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society.

Freedmen's Bureau Bill.

Freedmen's Bureau Bill.

They had what they called the Freedman's Bureau.

THE SILENT SOUTH Together with the Freedman's Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System.

Ladies Freedmen's Ass'n, Bbl., Val., 51, for Atlanta, U. RHODE ISLAND, $1,020.21.

" Robert Dale Owen, chairman of the Freedman's Commission, was most enthusiastic in the work of the Loyal League, and came to our rooms frequently to suggest new modes of agitation and to give us an inkling of what was going on behind the scenes in Washington.

The Freedmen's Bureau.

[Sidenote: The Freedmen's Bureau.

In March, 1865, while the war was still going on, and while Lincoln was alive, Congress had established the Freedmen's Bureau to look after the interests of the negroes.

In the following July Congress passed another bill to continue the Freedmen's Bureau.