eat work of emancipation is not to be accomplished in a
day;--it must be the result of time, of long and continued
exertions: it is for you to show by an orderly and worthy
deportment that you are deserving of the rank which you have
attained. Endeavour as much as possible to use economy in your
expences, so that you may be enabled to save from your earnings,
something for the education of your children, and for your
support in time of sickness, and in old age: and let all those
who by attending to this admonition, have acquired means, send
their children to school as soon as they are old enough, where
their morals will be an object of attention, as well as their
improvement in school learning; and when they arrive at a
suitable age, let it be your especial care to have them
instructed in some mechanical art suited to their capacities, or
in agricultural pursuits; by which they may afterwards be enabled
to support themselves and a family. Encourage, also, those among
you who are qualified as teachers of schools, and when you are of
ability to pay, never send your children to free-schools; this
may be considered as robbing the poor, of the opportunities which
were intended for them alone.

Keep out of all contentions and law-suits with each other; by
which your valuable time, which should be spent in useful
occupations, is grievously misapplied, your money wasted, and
your character in the world, is unhappily injured and
degraded:--it is a mortifying sight to your friends, to see the
coloured people bringing each other before the civil officers
and in courts of justice for trifling causes of contention, which
by exercising an amiable and forbearing disposition might be
easily settled, without going to law, and spending their time and
money, in useless disputations.

Be faithful to the obligations of the marriage covenant. Be
diligent in your respective callings, so that you may not
disappoint the expectations of those who have confided in you,
and in the capacity of domestics or hired servants, shew
yourselves faith-ful; remembering that no situation in life is
disgraceful in itself, but that upon your own conduct, will
depend the estimation in which you will be held by others; and if
you perform your duty with fidelity, you will be resp