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EDUCATION. 



seeking to relieve their wandering wretchedness, 

 and suffering degradation. ' The powers that 

 be/ however, owe them all necessary assistance 

 and protection, in their location on lands, that 

 should be unalienably reserved as their own 

 property, for the purpose of civilized life. And 

 should benevolent exertions be made with a 

 view to promote their best interests, let them 

 be directed in the charitable attempt, yet by no 

 means, forlorn hope, of effecting a change in 

 the condition of these Indians. School-houses 

 should be erected wherever they can be induced 

 to settle, and teachers appointed, who would 

 need a religious motive to cause them to per- 

 severe in their truly arduous task, whilst acting 

 towards them as their protectors, advisers, 

 friends, and assistants in agricultural pursuits. 

 By adopting such a system, with a view to 

 benefit a long injured race of men, a national 

 obligation would be discharged, charity would 

 be duly exercised, and sound, scriptural, prac- 

 tical information imparted to them. Educa- 

 tion, as it advanced, in conveying the elements 

 of real knowledge, would effectually destroy, 

 through the divine blessing, the elements of 

 superstition, and change that turn of mind on 

 which superstition is founded. 



Near to the Indian camp was a village of 



