The best interests of the colony would be greatly forwarded,
if government were to select some clergymen, of unequivocal piety
and zeal, to inculcate religious and moral principles. For this
purpose, they should be chosen of unblemished character, whose
respectability and exemplary conduct would assist to give weight
to the doctrines which flow from their lips. Much good cannot be
derived from the efforts of men, who are chiefly engaged in
farming and traffic, and who will sell a bottle of spirits, or
_oblige_ some of those very persons with it, to whom they
have just before been preaching the duty of temperance, and whose
learning and appearance are better adapted to less important
avocations, than fulfilling the sacred functions it is intended
they should perform.--The future prosperity of the settlement
also greatly depends upon the manner in which the rising
generation are instructed. The education of youth is, at present,
much neglected, through the want of four or five schoolmasters of
sufficient capacity. There cannot be a doubt that persons
qualified for this profession would meet with very liberal
encouragement, as the children are numerous, and there are but
few parents who cannot afford to educate their offspring
respectably.

The want of some able superintendants in different branches of
business is at present much felt, since such individuals might be
usefully employed in training up youth to the pursuits of
industry; by which means the commission of crimes would be
rendered less frequent, and the dispositions of children would
receive a proper bias. An arrangement of this nature would also
remove the severe inconvenience occasioned by the extreme
scarcity of able mechanics throughout the colony.