G. Fee.  This gentleman is himself, the son of a slave-holder, but gave up his earthly patrimony many years since for conscience’ sake, and has since made it the business of his life to proclaim the gospel in its purity, and to use every available means for directing all to Christ.

When speaking of Berea, Mr. Fee remarks:  “The land was poor, but the situation beautiful, with good water, and a favorable location, in some respects.  We could have had locations more fertile and more easy of access, but more exposed to the slave-power.  It was five miles from a turnpike road, with quite a population around it for a slave State.”

    In one of Mr. Fee’s letters he introduces a subject which we
    wish especially to bring before our friends, feeling almost sure
    that many of them will respond to its importance: 

“You ask, he says, if there are not noble-hearted young people in slave-holding families?  There is one whom I desire to commend to your special prayer and regard, Elizabeth Rawlings, daughter of John H. Rawlings, of Madison county, Kentucky.  He was once a slave-holder, but has twice been a delegate to our Free-soil National Conventions, and is a strong friend of freedom.  His daughter has had small opportunities for acquiring knowledge, but was in our school at Berea, and making rapid progress.  Our school was not only Anti-slavery, but avowedly Anti-caste.  This made it the more odious.  When Mr. Rogers and others were about to be driven away, she announced that she would continue the school on the same principles.  Accordingly she went into the school-room after a few days, with a little band of small scholars, and has perseveringly kept it up.  This noble and brave-hearted young woman is about twenty-two years of age; has a very vigorous mind; acquires knowledge very rapidly; is very modest; and is, I trust, a true believer in Christ.  I desire to see her fitted for the post of teacher.  One year’s study would greatly benefit her.  She has not gone beyond grammar and arithmetic.  I have not means or would at once give her those advantages she needs.  I once had a small patrimony, but expended it in freedom’s cause, and now live on the small salary of a [Home] Missionary.  I have a daughter of fifteen, as far advanced as Miss Rawlings.  I want to train and educate them both for teaching, and had thought to educate the latter, and suggest to some one to educate the other.  I do not urge, but simply suggest.  This might be another cord binding the two continents.  Lewis Tappan, of New York, would receive to transmit, and I would report.”

Now if we may lay before you, dear friends, our hearts’ inquiry, it is this:  “Cannot we in England, raise L50 or L60 for one year’s schooling for these two dear girls, Elizabeth Rawlings and J.G.  Fee’s daughter?” It seems to us, that the one deserves it from her noble daring, the other as a little tribute to her father’s