e care of an association consisting of the following
trustees: Benjamin Tatham, New York; Samuel M. Janney, Loudoun
County, Virginia; Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; Samuel Rhoads and
Thomas Williamson, Philadelphia; G. Bailey and L. D. Gale,
Washington; H. W. Bellows, New York; C. E. Stowe, Andover; H. W.
Beecher, Brooklyn, together with an executive committee
consisting of S. J. Bowen, J. M. Wilson and L. D. Gale, of
Washington; and M. Miner, Principal, and William H. Beecher, of
Reading, Secretary.

"The trustees state that a very eligible site of three acres,
within the city limits of Washington, of the northwest, has
already been purchased, paid for and secured to the trustees, and
that all which is now wanted is $20,000 wherewith to erect a
larger and more suitable edifice for the reception of the
applicants pressing upon it from the numerous free colored blacks
in the District and adjacent States. The proposed edifice is
designed to accommodate 150 scholars and to furnish homes for the
teachers and pupils from a distance. The enlarged school will
include the higher branches in its system of instruction.

"There was a meeting yesterday afternoon, in an ante-room of
Tremont 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. George S. Hillard, Rev. Dr. Lathrop, Rev. C. E. Hale, and
Deacon Greele, all of whom are deeply interested in the project.

"The meeting decided to draw up and circulate a subscription
paper, and counted upon receiving $10,000 for the purpose in this
city. The pastors of several churches in New York had pledged
their churches in the sum of a thousand dollars each. Mr. Beecher
will solicit subscriptions in most of the principal towns of
Massachusetts. The designs and benefits of the project will be
fully set forth at a public meeting in this city in the course of
a fortnight."--_The Boston Journal_, April 18, 1857.

[5] An extract from Walter Lenox's article opposing Miss Miner's
School, follows:

"With justice we can say to the advocate of this measure, you are
not competent to decide this question: your habits of thought,
your ignorance of our true relations to the colored population,