New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-04
SUPPRESSION OF THE SCHOOLS
IN NORTH CAROLINA.

IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The telegraph announced on Monday that
Military Governor Stanley had issued an order
prohibiting further instruction in tho schools OF
Newbern established for the benefit Of the loyal
colored refugees there. On Tuesday, in the
Senate and House Of Representative, resolu-
tons of inquiry were adopted, introduced by
Mr.. Sumner and Mr. Hickman, on this subject.
1t was in February last that the expedition
of Gen. Burnside AID Com. GOldsborough won
the victory at Roanoke, and took possession OF
Newbern and the neighboring country in
North Carolina. When, it is said, Burn.
side unfurIed the Stars and Stripes in sight of
Roanoke, he saw a little canoe padding of to
him which held single black man; and in
that contraband hand victory was brought to
the United States of America, led by Burnside.
He came to the General, and said: This is deep
water, and that is shoal; this is swamp, that
is firm land, and that is wood; there are four
thousand mon here, and one thousand there;
q cannon here, redoubt there The whole
country was mapped out, as an engineer could
not have done it in q month, in the memory Of
that man. And Burnside was loyal TO humanity
and believed him. The soldiers forded where
the negro babe them. the vessels anchored
wbers he babe them. and to-day he
stands ut the right hand of Burnside clad in
uniform, with the pledge Of the General that
a. long as be lives and has anything to eat the
man that gave him Roanoke shall have half
loaf"
Soon afterward, DR.. Vincent Colyer of this city
went down as missionary to the contrabands in
North Carolina, and proved himself 80 useful a
person that Gen. Burnside appointed him Su.
perintendent of the Poor, and thus be con-
tinued his labors in the double capacity of
Government officer and church missionary and
teacher. What he saw and did, and what he
thought Of those among whom he labored, will
best appear from bis own words. addressed
last April to one of our most honored citizens
Z" An the negroes, as fast as they come within
our lines from any direction, are Immediately
sent to me. Sometimes as many as sixty or a
hundred will come in at once, occasionally at
night. Some are fresh from the plantations,
often ragged, hungry, and dirty from long
travel through woods. Marshes and dusty
roads, Many little children come with their
mothers. All these have first to be fed next,
shelter provided and soon. work and occu-
patton. have over seven hundred able
bodied men entered on my books, and,
with their families, upward of three thou
sand men, womeu aud children have reported
themselves. Five hundred Of the men are en-
ployed % Government works, and we cannot
get sixth part of the number we could most
probably employ. Two hundred are employed
as servants in the hospitals aud in the Quar-
termasters Department, unloading ships &c.
The women soon learn to earn their own liv-
ing, selling pies. cakes, &c, and doing wash
ing for the soldiers. The negroes lar exceed
my expectations as to their intelligence and
capacity for usefulness and sclfgovernment
They are orderly, well behaved, industrious,
/ the risk OF their lives, ready to serve U.S. We
employ them at every kind Of labor. M car
penters, masons, backsmths, farmers, garden
err, timber howers, home servants, laborcrs.
&C., and in all these occupations they are equal
to the work We give them to do. AS to having
any anxiety about their ability to take care OF
themselves, or thought of sendisg them to any
other country for usefulness, or safety to our
selves, it is simply absurd. Only let them
alone and give them fair wages for their work,
with intelligent, sensible men over them to direct
their energies, and instead of a dangerous body
of men, they will prove most valuable com.
munity, and a blessing to the nation that har.
bOrs and protects them
But it is understood that Gov. Stanley, after
looking into the operations among the contra.
bands, has announced that be is required Il
govern North Carolina according to the laws us
they stand on the statute books of that State
and that those laws forbid the education Of
slaves, which must therefore be discontinued
According to the law of North Carolina,
enacted in 1884, to teach a slave to read OF
write, or sell or give him any book or pamphlet
is punished with thirty nine lashes or imprison.
ment if tho offender DO free negro; but il
a white, then with enc Of 5000. The rea.