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itself upon the attention of ecclesiastical assemblies, and after full discussion, they pronounced in favor of colored Sabbath and day Schools. But it must be confessed that resolutions in favor of them were, at times, urged, not from the best motives or from any real desire to see the negro educated. A leading member of the Alabama Association at a meeting in Montgomery, used the following language, upon the adoption of the report upon the solution of the colored members of the churches.
"But Sir it is not left us to decide this question How (the Negro) will be thought. If you would, you could not prevent it. Already schools for their use are established in our midst, and some of them will educate themselves and their children. Already at the North, Societies are organized, money collected for this purpose. The only question is: who shall educate these people. I say to you as a mere question of interest, it is ruinous to permit others to educate them xxx But who will be sent by these Societies to teach them? What class of the people of the North will undertake this work? xxxxx They will be the men and women of the North whose moral and intellectual culture and whose social position, offers them no higher reward than the compensation received for teaching the Negroes of the South. Coming from the lowest class of Northern society, educated