had the single eye; both learned in the same school, and sat at the feet of the same Divine Master.  It is an interesting fact that on the subject last noticed, their labors should have been comparatively fruitless, and for a long interval almost forgotten, while their views on slavery rapidly spread, and produced extensive and permanent results.  Does not this illustrate the lesson long ago taught by a great master of wisdom:  “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they shall both be alike good.”  May we not infer from this, that even those labors, rightly undertaken, which do not immediately prosper, are yet owned and accepted in the Divine sight?

To return from this digression to our attendance of the Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia:  one interesting part of the business was the annual report on education; from which it appeared, that the whole number of children, of an age for education, within the compass of this Yearly Meeting, was eighteen hundred and fourteen, and of these ninety-eight were temporarily absent, though most of them had been receiving instruction during part of the year.

I was also deeply interested in the statements made relative to the wicked expatriation of the Indians living within this Yearly Meeting’s limits, by the United States Government, from lands which had been secured to them by treaty in the most solemn manner, to the Western wilderness, under plea of a fraudulently obtained cession of their lands, by a few of their number.  What greatly aggravates the case is the fact, that these Indians were making rapid progress in civilization, and from a nation of hunters had generally become an agricultural people.  Their whole history is a reproach and blot on the American Government, and shews either that public and private virtue amongst the people is at a low ebb, or that “the wicked bear rule.”  On behalf of this injured people, “Friends” appear to have made strenuous efforts, but have failed in producing any decidedly favorable impression on the Government.  The report on this subject, embodied a very affecting letter from the chiefs of this tribe, describing their grief and distress at the prospect of a cruel removal from the homes of their ancestors.[A]

[Footnote A:  See Appendix C.]

During this week, my valued friends, John and Maria Candler, arrived from Hayti, after a stay of many months in Jamaica.  At the close of the Yearly Meeting, a meeting was held, and attended by about three hundred “Friends,” to whom John Candler gave much interesting information, detailing the results of emancipation in that Island, from his own extensive observations and inquiries.  At the request of some individuals present I added a few observations at the close, on the principles and objects of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.