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would [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] teach them to economize & with how little labor they could become supporters of themselves, & the proceeds of the sale of manufactured articles would lessen the expense to the Government. There should be at each Colony a live Chaplain or Teacher, who, like the Master whose work he undertakes to do, will go about doing good. The long night of slavery that hung over the mental vision of this people, has almost benumbed their human feelings & affection. The father that begat & the mother than bore the child looked not upon it as theirs, but as so much acquisition of wealth to their masters, liable at any time to be sold as was the other goods & chattels of their owner. From this want of love & affection one for the other, no desire to assist each other is exhibited, but the opposite feeling is prevalent. To elevate their moral perceptions & beget within them a higher sense of moral & fraternal feeling is the work of the Christian World, more than the civil government. Schools should be established as far as possible without cash. Primers with the Alphabet & easy spelling, if they can be donated, should be given to every one, old & young, that manifest any desire to learn. Among the number that would assemble at the Colonies, I should think teachers could be found of their own numbers able to teach others, at least the alphabet.

As to the lesser numbers to be cared for, heretofore cautioned, I am induced to believe it nearer correct than the greater, from the fact that the number