The Liberator (Boston, Massachusetts) - Fri, Nov 9, 1849- Page 2 COPY OF A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE. New Beproap, August 10, 1849. My Dean Sim :—Your note of i me. The number of colored i is about twelve hundred. No distinction is made in any of our schools on account of color. ‘ The raamhes; of ecleced perseunin Rem, Bedlerds> in proportion to population, is supposed to be larger than: in any other townion.citgdm the free tes. Our colored children have always attended our public schools. They are to be found to-day in every ee oe tees eral have course at the High School. The colored children would not attend any school Aton ene eles made Al years ago, a was to establish in this town a school exclusively for the colored children. The town was then divided into An appropriation was made pose—the purpose Before moving in the matter, I requested and ob- tained denen, to aeksbnanh Saeine San Gamera: “Can acolored child be excluded ® gchool kept in the district in which it resides, on the that there is established by the town a for all the colored children to attend? 1 pe Sorte L. sobenitted: to; then Hom Connion . Warren, then a resident in New Bedford. He gave me his opinion in writing, and his answer was a decided negative. The opinion was an elaborate one, and can, no doubt, now be found on the files of the school com- mittee. and the subject has never been named meeting or city council since. Thus have the colored children always enjoyed the advantages of our public school as as the white. I was fifteen years on the school committee, and could never discover that any disadvantage resulted from the admission of the colored children. It was never made a matter of complaint, either by teachers, Parents, or guardians. it All are and ever have been satisfied,and no schools in our Commonwealth stand hi: than ours. ‘Thus it has been determined by an experiment ina community having a large portion of colored children, that a course of action with to their i with the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws, results in no disadvantage to the white children. The same course is now i ‘equality — jy were i and the distinction which had for many years made was done ar My own opinions and feelings upon the whole ject are shown by the i Here it T cannot, of course, j of the effect; in your city, “ of the but i that the ing the attention of your Board, are of char ccter wat te be remedied by changing the complexion . of the teacher. . oe DRESSES TET ee JAMES CONGBON.-