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| large towns and cities, and throughout whole


regions of highly improved country, perfectly


dead to the Importance of improving their own


mind and securing to their children the bene-


fits of an enlarged education: Our heart sick


ems within us. Task why have we not sys-


tenn of education established among us, con-
| Meeting by one strong chain The common, the


grammar, the collegiate and The professional


school, where every thing relating to polish


ed and useful education miy be taugh'--why
have we not mechanical Institutions, where


our children may OBJ ain thorough knowledge
Of all the useful a,ts-is il because we have


moi the means-NO-it is because we grasp
after flowers, and neglect solid and wholesome
fruits !! Is there scarcely family of any
|respectability among us, who does not spend


from ten to fifty dollars annually IN unneeessa-


ry qualifications. Let us sacrifice or rather
consecrate, the means Of these unnecessary,
Of a sealed box, for the purposes Of education.
1t is truly said that knowledge is power, and
let our coloured population once become as
learned. as eined, and as wealthy as other
classes of community, and prejudice will hide
her face the tyrants spell will be broken
To talk about prejudice against colour is nom
sence but raise MP sons learned and enter
pt,sing, with off = is Of 90 OF 80 thousand dol
la,s-but rear daughters intelligent and polish
ed helresses 10 their tens and hundreds of


thousands, and the fair sons and daughters Of
Columbia will forget the law of lights and
shades 1t will be expunged from our system
OfphilosoPhy. And as should be, merit will
form the estimate Of character and respecta-
bilty. The tenn Africa, will no longerbe sy-
nonymous with that of degradation 1t may be
laid, by some, all this is very good, but how
shall il be attained. answer, cease to lurk
about the large cities, no longer hold to oceu-
pations calculated to perpetuate your degra-
iatlon. Be untireingly industrious, and fru-
gal even to miseredliness, and make the very
intended for yonr injury the means
oI your wealth and improvement This has
been the case with the Jews in some parts Of
Europe, they have been oppressed until the
wealth Of whole towns and cities have been
pressed into their hands. We commenced
his paragraph with the, intention, merely of
the views of the late King of Hay
i, on the subject Of education, which will be
ound in the following extract, from his Royal
Proclamation, delivered to bis subjects in
SIT.


Extract from RoyaI Proclamation Of


KING Henry to the Haytian PeOple.-


j uuary |, 1917.


Our attention is particularly fixed on public
most powerful means of JIM
proving the morals of nation, and forming