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our efforts may be crowned with success so that our children may be as the rough stone passing through the hands of the artist may come out to be a shining ornament to the age in which we live for as an eminent writer once said, Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands to god, let cruel and unbelieving minds raise up as many jeers and objections as they may the thing will proceed for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it. We have now arrived at the conclusion that a brighter day is arising on Africa. Already we seem to see her chains dissolved, her desert plains tranquil into a beautiful field her Congo and her Senegal the seats of science and religion; reflecting the glory of the rising sun from the spires of their churches and Universities; her Gambia on Niger whitened with her floating commerce her crowded cities sending forth the hum of business, her poets and orators standing on the same shelf with Milton and Burke, and all her sons employed in the songs of salutation. I hope, Mr Williams, that you will do all you can for us in establishing a school for us and be our guardian and protector against those that are evil disposed, relative to my self I was born in Raleigh N.C. Dec 24th 1839