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of this Country been a favourite object, with many philanthropick individuals and also with our Government to educate the Indians, Schools and Colleges variously endowed have been founded, and many young Indians have been sent to them; in the hope of developing their moral and mental qualities The experiment has been always unsuccessful and has shown that Individuals thus educated have added to the vices of the savages, all that in civilised life should be avoided. It is a common remark upon the frontier, confirmed by repeated observation, that an Indian who can read and write is generally the greatest rascal of his tribe. If an Indian be taken sufficiently early in life and educated at one of our Schools, he may unquestionably be fitted for the enjoyment of our society, But in that event, he must become a stranger to the land of his father. He will be utterly incapable of relishing the wild independence, and all that gives zest to savage life, He will be as unfit for promoting any plan of Indian improvement, as a white person similarly educated. But in fact I have never known or heard of an Indian, upon whom even this experiment has succeeded, They have been withdrawn from their friends at too late a period, after inveterate habits had given a permanent direction to their feelings and pursuits, As soon as they have been liberated from the restraints of discipline,