... System of Education as substitute for it, it has been the mistaken and unprincipled policy of successive governments, both Whig and Conservative, to uphold that system, notwithstanding the repeated proofs that have been given that it has signally failed ...

... important circumstance in the social aspect of the struggle is the flight of the negroes, which increases daily. The Richmond Whig attributes this mainly to the want of labour. The proprietors being unable to feed their idle slaves, the negroes must be allowed ...