The increase of female scholars during the first year of emancipation, was in this school alone, about eighty.
For our gratification, the Governor requested that all the children emancipated on the _first of August_, might be called up and placed on our side of the room.

Nearly one hundred children, of both sexes, who two years ago were _slaves_, now stood up before us FREE.

We noticed one little girl among the rest, about ten years old, who bore not the least tinge of color.

Her hair was straight and light, and her face had that mingling of vermilion and white, which Americans seem to consider, not only the nonpareil standard of beauty, but the immaculate test of human rights.

At her side was another with the deepest hue of the native African.