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What the South has done for the culture of the Negro's mind, is, precisely what they thought was to the advantage in a pecuniary sense; or to exalt them in this world above their fellows. If not, Why was there no means instituted for the education of that race, on a general scale?  There was the Sabbath.  If those refined "young masters and mistresses" were so willing to aid in the culture of the negro's mind: could not, they, have given a little part of the Holy Sabbath in laboring to learn the young negro to read the Holy Scriptures of Divine Truth?  Or called to their assistance, on some occasions that the help of their non slaveholding  neighbors.
  But on the contrary, there was positive enactments and penal laws to prevent it. - At least in this State.  They too, would have been put into force against the  non slave holder if he had attempted in one instance to instruct the black-man; either free, or slave, and carried beyond legal intention of the law by the infuriated mob.  I know these things to be so, born and raised here, in this and a joining County by a nonslaveholder, poor in his wordly goods but honest and just towards his fellows; I have as ample opportunities to know, as any man, the truth of what I state