We have,--supplying as well as we can by estimate, the numbers not
definitely given,--more than 2,000 communicants in Christian
churches, and more than 1,500 children in Sabbath Schools; some 40
day schools containing, exclusive of the Methodists, who are the
most numerous, and of whose numbers in school we have no report,
about 635 scholars. The whole number in day schools, therefore, is
probably not less than 1,200. We have the Alexander High School at
Monrovia, where instruction is given to some extent in the
classics; the English High School, at the same place, under Mr.
James; the Methodist Manual Labor School and Female Academy at
Millsburg; the Baptist Boarding School at Bexley; and the
Protestant Episcopal High School at Cape Palmas. These institutions
must furnish some students for a higher seminary, such as we
propose to establish; and such a population must need their labors
when educated.
However foreign to the designs of the writer of ever making that country
or any other out of America, his home; had this been done, and honorably
maintained, the Republic of Liberia would have met with words of
encouragement, not only from himself, an humble individual, but we dare
assert, from the leading spirits among, if not from the whole colored
population of the United States.
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