them. This won id not be allowed now. An itber statute, forbidding any one to teach tne iiegroes io read, was treated wi'h as little re gard. In almost every family servants learned to read—some of them m my own household,. not .nly reading, but writing a niudi better hand than their master. Indeed, such was ihe general prejudice against this latter enact ment thai, iv an address on the religious in