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AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF PORTSMOUTH ACADEMY.
THE BENEVOLENT mind must experience great pleasure in beholding means taking, and new institutions forming in various places, to educate our youth, and particularly that valuable part of our species, our young FEMALES. This subject has engaged the attention of some of our most beloved citizens in these states. They have justly consi|dered it, as a very important source of national prosperity. They wish so to conduct it, as will best accommodate it, to the state of society, man|ners and government in our country.