this purpose, to ascertain the character and strength of their moral and intellectual powers, and their dispositions to receive instruction: to examine into their origin, history, memorials, antiquities, traditions, governments, customs, manners, laws, languages, and religions; into their diseases, remedies, and manner of applying them; -also, into the efforts which have been already made for meliorating their condition, and the results of those efforts, and where they have failed, the causes of failure: to ascertain the number and names of the tribes, their places of residence, the extent, soil, and climate, of their respective territories, the stations where education families may be most advantageously located, and to suggest whatever means may be employed for their improvement.

Other objects of the Society shall be, to obtain a knowledge of the geography, mineralogy, geology, natural history, &c. of the Indian country; to collect specimens in all these branches of science, for the purpose of forming a CABINET for the use of the Government of the United States: Also, to select suitable spots in the Indian country, for making experimental farms in the immediate view of Indians, on which to cultivate the different kinds of grains, grasses, trees, plants, roots, and other garden vegetables, adapted to the various soils and climates of the aforesaid country; to introduce the best breeds of domestic animals, and feathered fowls. And generally, to do all other things, which such a Society can do, to accomplish its grand object, THE CIVILIZATION of the INDIANS."

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

PATRONS.

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Hon. JOHN ADAMS,

Hon, THOMAS JEFFERSON,

Hon. JAMES MADISON,

Late successive Presidents of the United States.

PRESIDENT.

The VICE-PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, ex-officio.

VICE-PRESIDENTS, ex-officio.

The Hon. THE SECRETARY OF STATE,

The Hon. THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,

The Hon THE SECRETARY OF WAR,

The Hon. THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY,

The Hon. THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE

UNITED STATES,

Their Excellencies, THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES, comprised in the National UNION.

The Education of Indian Females, and Intermarriages between Indians and White people.

"I connect these subjects, because, in contemplating the latter, the former should be kept in view. While Indians

remain in their present state, the minds of civilized people must revolt at the idea of intermarrying with them. It is natural, and decent, that it should be so. Intermarriages, however, in the present state of the Indians, or that which amounts to the same thing, have taken place to a great extent, and this, too, by many men of respectable talents and standing in society. More than half the Cherokee nation, a large part of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, and I may add, indeed, of all other tribes with whom the whites have had intercourse, are of mixed blood. The offspring of this intercourse, a numerous body, are of promising talents and appearance. Their complexion is nearly that of the white population. They require only education, and the enjoyment of our privileges, to make them a valuable portion of our citizens. Let this education, then, be given them, particularly to the female Indians.

"It is essential to the success of the project of the Government, that the female character among our native tribes, be raised from its present degraded state, to its proper rank and influence. This should be a primary object with the instructors of Indians. By educating female children, they will become prepared, in turn, to educate their own children, to manage their domestic

Mons. Peniere, an exile from France during her revolution, a man of genius and information, who resided four years among the Indians, a careful and intelligent observer of their character, speaks thus, on the subject of intermarriages. Encourage marriages between the whites and Indians. The second generation resulting from those alliances, would be totally white and beautiful. The Indians, in general, are better shaped, and more robust, than the whites; and their birth is as pure and noble as ours. ."-M.S. Memoir on the Civilization of the Indians.

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concerns with intelligence and propriety, and in this they will gradually attain their proper standing and influence in society. Many examples exist, to show that all this is practicable. Thus educated, and the marriage institution, in its purity, introduced, the principal obstacles to intermarriage with them would be removed. Let the Indians, therefore, be taught all branches of knowledge pertaining to civilized man; then let intermarriage with them become general, and the end which the Government has in view will be completely attained. They would then be literally of one blood with us, be merged in the nation, and saved from extinction,"

Important Suggestions on the Organization of Education Families.

"The following is extracted from an address to the Education Families among the Choctaws, from the Rev. Dr. Worcester, while at Mayhew, among the Choctaws, in the spring of 1821, shortly before his lamented death:

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Husbandry is a secular business in common life. But here husbandry is to be considered in a different light. The missionary farm should be regarded as the farm of the Lord; and those who labour here, are to labour as for Him, every day, and every hour. All, who are thus employed, are as really his servants as the missionary. And they should show cheerfulness in this labour; as much so, as if they were labouring for themselves."

"The department of husbandry is an important one, as a means of supporting the mission. In this respect it must become a great resource. The missions must depend much upon it. The children are to be educated in reading and writing, and all the arts of civilized life, on missionary ground. They are not taught at home. Every thing is to be learned here. They are both to be instructed and inured to labour. They must be made acquainted with husbandry and the labours of the field. This is a leading object."

"The following incident will show in what light the school at Eliot is viewed by the natives: A half-breed Choctaw, whose name is M'Curtin, had five children at school, and sent a sixth. The school was then full, and the sixth could not be received. The missionaries had repeatedly been obliged to decline receiving children. On the return of his child, the father fell into a passion, sent for his other five children, and took them from the school. Not long afterwards, the father being absent, an uncle of the children, called Captain Cole, hearing that Mr. Kingsbury was at Eliot, repaired thither with a petition, that the children might be received again. It is a custom of the Choctaws, that an uncle is a sort of guardian to children, even during the life of the father.'"

The following is a copy of Captain Cole's petition :

"Friend and Brother,

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"I reflect that my nephews and nieces have been taken from your care, and the loss of education gives me