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Show 208 TilE LiDERTY BELL. requisite to fit him for the practice of the medical profession in Liberia. This much could be safely asked of a Slnvo· holder, since it was not for a. Slave, who is wanted at home, but for a free man of color, who must be got riel of lost his presence should make Slaves discontented. What matters it to the United States what the climate of Liberia is? It is not necessary, as the ancient said, that the free man of color should live,-" il n'est pas pay6 pour 9a,"- it is only important that he should go. I novcr knew what tho village schoolmaster did in tho case of the colored girl, but I can hnrdly dare to suppose him less ignorant or more free from cowardly submission to a corrupt public opinion, than the men who control the educational arrange· mcnts of that " Athens of the New World/' Boston. The climate proving too intense for the purpose which induced us to seek it, we lost sight, in lcaY· ]'In: \'OUN(l K.~ILOJ:, i . 200 ng It, of our interestin . . g young couple mtcrcstmg crisis of t} • nt the HJost . IOJr affairs; hut them m my recollect' I cherbh mn as ndclinrr on hundreds and tl 0 e more to the • < JOusnnds of proof.:; I . . ngamst color i<J lil . t lnt preJndtcc . {C lee, - subject t a.cctdcnts to build tl . . . o too mn.ny lC mstJtutiOns of As surely as th n nation upon. e sun and southern . the rivers, 80 surel . wmd unlocks J must preJudice . ld and justice, n.nd SI JIC to love arcry consequently disappear. 'Pari~, October a, 1862. 18• |