I did find, though, that which no costly building and apparatus can supply,--hundreds of hungry, earnest souls who wanted to secure knowledge.
Tuskegee seemed an ideal place for the school.

It was in the midst of the great bulk of the Negro population, and was rather secluded, being five miles from the main line of railroad, with which it was connected by a short line.

During the days of slavery, and since, the town had been a centre for the education of the white people.

This was an added advantage, for the reason that I found the white people possessing a degree of culture and education that is not surpassed by many localities.

While the coloured people were ignorant, they had not, as a rule, degraded and weakened their bodies by vices such as are common to the lower class of people in the large cities.