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and Delaware. Maryland has never been in love with public schools, and she is taking to them now under a sense of shame.
Her coloured schools are few in number and poor in quality.
Delaware refuses, as a State, to recognise the duty of public instruction.
She has neither State provision, nor County provision, for coloured schools.
Such teaching as she gets, is gotten from her priests.
Knowing these facts, need any one marvel that Delaware is one of the darkest corners of the United States?
In the Lake regions, the young States of Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, have a more uniform system, which is every year in course of improvement.
These States have elementary schools in every township, with a secondary school in almost every county, crowned by a State university, with classical and scientific chairs.
Ohio and Illinois have a system of their own.
On the Pacific slope, with the exception of California, public training is much neglected.
Oregon, Dacota, and Nevada scarcely enter into the civilised system; Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico stand beyond it. In the River States, Nebraska,
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