“_Resolved_, 1st. That we hear with deep sorrow the decision of the American Missionary Association to discontinue the school, sell the property, and send the teachers to other points. 2. That we earnestly request the American Missionary Association to reconsider this decision, and permit Miss Wells to remain at the head of the school. 3. In order to enable the school to be kept up, we propose to put up a good substantial school building, and as an assurance of our purpose and ability to do this we forward the following subscription list.” The resolutions were immediately and unanimously adopted. Two men then spoke with trembling voices and tears in their eyes, and in thirty minutes names were taken with pledges to the amount of $2,196. We then checked the movement, and explained that $5,000 was necessary, but that we had raised the $2,000 we wished to raise there. A unanimous vote authorized me to make the report of the meeting to the American Missionary Association, and that they wished the house and lot to be held forever for the education of the colored people of North Alabama; that if the American Missionary Association would permit them to buy the land at a reasonable price they would do it; or the American Missionary Association might hold the land and the people the house, neither to sell out without the consent of the other. An old blind man said, “An old blind horse ain’t good for much, but when you get him into the tread-mill he is as good as any other; so when you get to making brick I will turn the crank to draw the water.” We got another $100 subscription and immediately adjourned. This morning I have received another subscription of $12, making in all $2,308. I ought to have mentioned that a committee of seven was appointed to solicit subscriptions on the streets. If you say so, the school-house shall be completed January 1st, 1880. I earnestly request that the petition be granted. At the last meeting of our Executive Committee these letters were read. All were deeply moved, and the response was hearty and unanimous, _Let them arise and build_, and the funds needed for the continuance of the school shall be appropriated and paid. We cannot stop such a work. We cannot refuse such a plea. Why, the educating power of this movement upon the colored people of that place, and its effect, perhaps, upon the white population as well, is worth ten times the money involved in both the building and the school. And yet we are told that the blacks are becoming indifferent to education. And now, dear friend, you who are thinking how the Lord has not prospered you quite as much as he did a few years ago, when you have read this, will you not put back that $100, or that $1, you were going to take from your usual gift to us, that such work as this may go on? It is your retrenchment that compels ours. * * * * * FREEDMEN’S MISSIONS AID SOCIETY.