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1t is greatly to be lamented that some more
efficient measures are not adopted to promote ed
ucation of the children of the poor despsed color
ed race. 1t is probable that the commissioners of
common schools, think it sin to pay any atten-
tion to those children. What can be hoped for if
this description of the poor children continued
to be neglected? Whose fault is it, 1t is not
their parents fault, because in the first place. most
of their parents are ignorant themselves, and have
no education in consequence of having been born
slaves. Their masters were allowed to raise
them, or grow them up with other cattle, to suit
their own convenience. Consequently we have
portion of our people filling place in society
best to serve as living stock. They are strangers
to the endearments of home, and add, intercourse
beyond that of their inmates, tutored to be happy
when filled and badly clad, without farther knowl-
edge of the blessings of heaven afforded to men in
social life, or any duties required of him by his
Creator; and are badly calculated to have the
charge Of a family. 1t was formerly thought by
their masters that any thing was good enough for
slaves, and now any thing is good enough for the
blacks. We heartily pray that God may awaken
the city authorities to this subject, and that there
may be at least one good school established in this
great city for the above purpose. AT this time