384 Letters from the United States of North Amevion. ‘[Oecr. 
duties of life, whatever they may be, and whether of heroic or do- 
mestic life. ; 70980 ‘Ritiwak 
You have made no little noise, one way and another, about the Indians 
of America, and about their cruel task-masters the whites); and! you 
may therefore be glad to know—for humanity’s sake, that you,are sadly 
ignorant of the true state of the case. Take one example}: “The 
government pays 13,500 dollars for the support of schools, &c., at thirty- 
eight stations among various tribes of Indians. Of the schools sixteen 
were established by the American Board of Foreign Missions, seven by 
the Baptists, six by the United Foreign Missionary Society, and two by 
the Moravians. The society of Jesuits have a Catholic school among 
the Indians of Missouri, which receives 800 dollars annually. The 
number of teachers (including their families) at all the schools is 281; 
number of scholars 1,159 (but four scholars to a teacher, the children 
of the teachers being teachers); and so in other matters which concern 
the red people, who, though they are not treated as I would have them 
treated by the white barbarians of America, are treated more generously 
than any other conquered people ever were by their conquerors—for the 
whites are the conquerors of the red men, as you know, and that, after 
ages of exterminating warfare: but of this hereafter. 
You have heard of Mr. Jefferson’s great university. It has just gone 
into operation, with every prospect of success.* It will be a worthy. 
rival yet of the great northern university, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
where, up to this hour, all the southern young men who are not sent 
abroad, or educated at home by tutors, or sent to some other New- 
England college, are prepared for the higher duties of life. I am glad 
to see this: for though it would be Jdetter, if, while the young men of the 
south are educated at the north, the young men of the north were 
educated at the south—dbetter, because it would promote a feeling of 
protherhood among them; still, as that can hardly happen for a great 
while, and as the jealousy which does already exist between the very 
blood of the north and that of the south, is rather quickened than . 
allayed, I fear, by the limited and peculiar intercourse which takes, place 
now at Haward, between the students of the south and the people of 
the north, it may be wiser to keep them apart, until they have grown 
up and have it in their power to travel, each into the country of the 
other. When that period arrives, they always behave better and are 
better received, than while they are at college. Visitors and travellers 
are very different from collegians, every where. 
There are law schools too in different parts of the country; one 
at Northampton, Massachusetts ; one at Litchfield, Connecticut, and 
one at Baltimore ; besides a law professorship in certain of the colleges 
and universities ; and the medical schools of Maryland and Pennsylvania 
are considered in Europe as among the best of the age. They have no 
difficulty here about bodies—they frequently cost no more than two or 
three dollars each (9s. to 13s. 6d). And, what is better still, they are! 
beginning to discover that the system of education hitherto in use here 
is not American, but foreign; that it is not suited to the age; onthe 
people, nor to the nature of Republican institutions; and that, if a 
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* The dormitories actually provided can receive 218 students ; and about fifty more, 
can be accommodated at Charlottes-ville, a neighbouring village. The university began, 
with forty students ; but in afew weeks that number had augmented to 116, ers 
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