or child and youth of every color in those places may
receive a common English education, (_based, however, be it
particularly understood, on a moral and religious one_, that is,
the pupils shall on particular days he instructed in morality and
religion, and school shall be opened and closed daily with prayer.)
And in time, when the general estate will yield the necessary
funds, (for in time its revenue will be very large,) over and above
what will be necessary to the education of the poor of those two
cities and their respective suburbs, it is my desire and request
that the blessings of education may be extended to the poor
throughout every town, village, and hamlet in the respective States
of Louisiana and Maryland, and was it possible, through the whole
of the United States of America.'

After paying off all the annuities, which the testator thinks will be
completed in forty years, the net annual revenue of rents of the general
estate is to be equally divided, one half to each, between the said two
cities of Baltimore and New-Orleans, for the purpose of educating the
poor.

The testator then proceeds to inculcate a better feeling between the
poor, and rich, declaring that the latter are 'reservoirs in which the
Most High makes to flow the rich streams of his beneficence, to be laid
up and husbanded for his all-wise and all-seeing purposes, and for
seasons of distress and affliction to the poor. Instead, then, of
looking on them as their greatest enemies, they should, on the contrary,
consider them as they really are, their best friends. This is the
position of all rich men, whose hearts occupy the right place in their
bosoms, stand toward the poor.'

Then follows a remarkable and consoling confession of the superior
happiness of the poor man:

'Besides, let the poorer classes of the world be consoled, assured
that the labor-loving, frugal, industrious, and virtuous among them
possess joys and happiness in this life which the rich know not and
can not appreciate; so well convinced am I (after a long life and
intercourse with my fellow-men of all classes) of the truth 'that
the happiness of this life is altogether on the side of the
virtuous and industrious poor,' that had I children, (which I have
not,)' [how lively and sagacious the apprehension of the old
millionaire lest some putative offspring might come fo