Their desire for education is a very creditable one, and should be gratified so far as our means will permit." Instead of establishing the chair of pedagogy recommended by Governor Vance, the Legislature appropriated the money to conduct the summer school for teachers at the University.

An appropriation of equal amount was made for negroes and similar allowances have been continued to the present.

Proportionately larger appropriations have been made for the whites in recent years.

Other States have established normal schools for negroes, but in none of them is the supply of trained negro teachers equal to the demand.
The negro public schools were organized along the same lines as the white, so far as circumstances permitted, but the work was difficult and remains so to this day.

The negro teachers were ignorant, and many of them were indolent and immoral.