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Excerpt from Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Colonization Society: With the Proceeding of the Board of Directors, and of the Annual Meeting of the Society, January 17, 1844
The message of Governor Roberts to the colonial legislature in the early part of the year, and his subsequent despatches, afi'ord gratifying evidence of increasing attention to commerce, agriculture, education, and various public improvements. By the colonial law, a common school is to be established in everv township of the colony, under the direction of a school committee, to which all persons are compelled by law to send their children; and, while all monies arising from licenses and un appropriated military and court fines are set apart as a fund to support education, the inhabitants of the several towns and villages are autho rized to impose taxes to supply any deficiency. To this subject, the Governor invokes the consideration of the legislature in appropriate and impressive terms. The condition of our race, he. Observes, in other parts of the world, and especially of the inhabitants of this heathen coun try, should be motives to rouse us to greater diligence, that we may show to the world that the African race is as susceptible of mental improve ment as any other. At present there are schools established in several of our towns and villages; these, however, are under the patronage and con trol ofvarious religious institutions in America, and may be discontinued at any moment. It therefore becomes us to assist ourselves in this great work of improvement, that we may be prepared for any emergency. We can do something and should do something. Let us put our shoulders to the wheel, and when we have done all we can do, l pledge myself there willbe no lack of aid. The sympathies of the benevolent every where are enlisted in our favor, especially with regard to this subject; and when it is known abroad, that we appreciate learning, and are doing all in our power to obtain it and cannot succeed, then, and not till then, shall we have the efficient aid of our friends abroad, and be able to establish permanent schools for the education of our youth. There is evidently a want of competent teachers, and of means for their support, and more effectual measures are suggested to the legislature by the Governor to meet the necessity of a more general and thorough system of instruction.
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