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Show 206 TilE LIBERTY n~<:J,L. was au Englishwoman, and did not comprehend thl' prejudice,) an<l her fricndlessncss, make me feel a sort of maternal responsibility for her. She has n wonderful capacity for all accomplishments,music, dancing, languages, all seeming natural to her. She speaks some equally well, though she is ignorant of abundance of things that no English child could help knowing. She can do whateyer she chooses, to a miracle almost, and what she docs not like, she docs altogether as ilL It is the true artistic organization, -flexible, graceful, anlcnt, eloquent. Your young Now Englander is very much in love with her. He urges her to marry him immediately. Sbo says she is too young mul too ignorant. He tells her be will wait a year or two, and in tho meanwhile she shall live in his father's family, in the State of Maino, and go to school.'' I never know the conclusion of this little ro-mnnce of real life ; -whether the fat11or's preju· dices were as vincible as the son's i-whether the TilE YOUNG SAli.OR, 207 village schoolmaster and his . . I . P"l)J}s were m t Ion· feelings, OJ' whether the receptive sclrcs with invective . y contented them-a agamst the i degradation of gnoranco an(l a race their pro. ]" from instruction O 1 JU( 1008 excluded . no s lOulcl not ex more delicacy and h . · poet of them umamty, more . d and Christian principle In opcudcncc . . . ' nor less vulgarit sernhty, than charackl rt.z. o tho ,, Co. h' Y and of polished societv "-th , rmt mn capital "' c Unrvcrsity G of Cambrido-e M h . ovcrnmcnt o ' assac usetts of l . h department, only three ' w llC the medical years ago refu d worthy young colo d ' so to a . re man the privilc f . mg liis studies und go o contmu. cr such advantages as it cd, after bavinf)' had d posscss- c a. cmand as to th . . respecting him so d CJr mtcntions rve upon them b students. Tha~ ~ho Y some of the young colored t appears from t1 I nan was worthy 10 otter of recom d . him by j)f E men atron given r. vcrett to tho A . Paris ~Ir n· morJCan Minister at ' . IYCS, asking an s . require in th . y erviCcs he might 0 prosccutwn of tl 10 course of study |