Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-05-29

request its Republication, with the ac-
companying comments, in your paper.
WALTER LENOX.
From the Boston Journal OF April 18Th
Schools FOR FREE CoLoRED GIRLS Iy
WASHINGTON. There are in the United
States 10000 free people of color. -
They are generally, although subject to
taxation, excluded by law or prejudice
from schools of every grade Their
case becomes at once an object of charity
which rises infinitely above all party OIL
sectional lines. This charity, we are
gratified in being able to state, has al
ready been inaugurated, through the de-
voted labors of an excellent young lady
from Western New York, by the name
of Miss Myrtilla Miner, who has estab.
lished and maintained for the past foul
years in the city of Washington, schoo'
for the education of free colored youth
This school is placed there because it is
national ground, and the nation is re-
sponsiblc for the well-being of its popu-
lation; because there are there II 900
of this suffering people excluded by law
from schools and destitute of instruction
because there are in the adjoining States
Of Maryland and Virginia $50 900 equal
ly destitute, who can be reached in nc
other way; and because it is hoped
through this means to reach a class OF
girls of peculiar interest, often the most
beautiful and intelligent, and yet the most
hopelessly wretched, and who are often
objects of strong paternal affection. The
STAKEHOLDER would gladly educate and
save these children, but domestic peace
drives them from his hearth; he cannot
emancipate them to be victims of violence
or lust; he cannot send them to North
ern schools, where prejudice would brand
them; and it is proposed to open an asy-
lum near them, where they may be
brought, omancipated, educated, and
taught housewifery as we'll as science,
and thus be prepared to become teachers
among their own mixed race.
In its present condition this school en-
braces boarding, domestic economy, nor
nal teachers and primary departments,
and is placed under the care of an asso-
citation, consisting of the following trus-
tees: Benz. latham, N. Y; s. M.
Janney, Loudoun county, Va; Johns
Hopkins, Baltimore Samuel Rhoads
and Thomas Williamson, Philadelphia /;
G. Bailey and l.. ID. Gale, Washington !;
II. w. Bellows. N. Y; G. f. Stowe,
Andover; II. w. Beecher, Brooklyn /;
together with an executive committee
consisting of S. j. Bowen, j. NJ. Wilson
and i. d. Gale, of Washington; and
NJ. Miner, Principal, and William II.
Beecher, of Reading, Secretary.
The trustees state that a very eligible
site of three acres, within the city limits
Of Washington, on the northwest, has
already been purchased, paid for and Sc
cured to the trustees, and thai all which
is now wanted is $40, 900 wherewith to
erect larger and more suitable ediice
for the reception of the applicants pres
sing upon it from the numerous free col
ored blacks in the District and adjacent
States. The proposed edilice is designed
to accommodate $50 scholars, and to fur
nigh homes for the teachers and pupils
from distance. The enlarged school
will include the higher branches in its
system Of instruction.
There was a meeting yesterday after
noon in an antoroom Of fremont Temple,
Of gentlemen called together to listen TO
the statements Of the Secretary of the
Association regarding this school The
meeting was small, but embraced such
gentlemen as Hon Geo s. IIilard, Rev.
DR.. Lathrop, Rev Il. T.. Hale, and Dea-
con Creole, all Of whom are deeply in
terestcd in the project.
The meeting decided TO draw up and
circulate subscription paper, and count
ed upon receiving $4,000 for the pur-
pose in this city. The pastors of several
churches in New York have pledged
their churches in the sums Of thousand
dollars each. Mr.. Bcecher will solicit
subscriptions in most of the principal
towns Of Massachusetts,. The designs
and benefits of the project win be fully
set forth at public meeting in this city
in the course Of fortnight.
II is not my purpose 10 notice the i'm
putations which the above extract con-
tains, or my desire to provoke sectional
controversy. The matter involved is too
momentous in all its relations, not only
to this community, but to the entire coun-
try and, in the language Of the extract
itself crises infinitely above all party or
sectional lines" 1t is my wish to arrest
public attention here, as also elsewhere,
in order that such immediate measures
may be adopted as the exigency Of the
case demands. If do not entirely mis-
take the opinion which the citizens Of
this District will entertain Of the char
acter and fatal consequences Of this en-
terprise, they will almost universally,
without distinction Of party or class, en-
phatically protest against it, and will con-
fdently expect that the advocates Of this
measure will promptly abandon it, as an
UNJUST anu dangerous interference WIN
the interests and feelings Of a separate
independent community.
Tie proposition is to establish at the
city Of Washington, upon an extensive
scale, an academy for the education of
free colored males and females from every
section Of the Union. Let us calmly
view the question both in its local and
national aspects The District Of Co.