Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-28
TO the CoIored people OF the south.

j AA0IGW.A O1 MASSACHUSETTS,. nak
published the following letter il behalf
Of the New-England Freedmen..s Aid
Society
FeU0sc-C citizens
As the time approaches for re-opening
the Schools for Freedmen, we cali upon
you to Gene up to the help of this great
work of Education.
The North must furnish money and
teachers-must send out the noblest OF
her sons and daughters to teach your
sons and daughters. We ask you to pro-
vide for them, whenever possible, school.
houses and subsistence. Every dollar
you thus save is will help send you an
other teacher. Time presses. The en-
Joyment OF every right hangs on Educa-
ton. a free, self-supporting, intelligent
people must and will secure. equality of
political and civil rights. No power can
prevent them. Abraham Lincoln de-
creed your emancipation from slavery.
Let us complete the work, and enamel
pate the mind from ignorance. Liberty
means a fair chance to win all the honest
prizes OF life means the opportunity to
be and become all that our own faculties
and our own good purposes may con
mand. You are now free to receive help
IN becoming intelligent citizens. But
not even God can make you SO unless you
help yourselves.
You can supply the teachers homes
with corn, eggs, chickens, milk, and
many other necessary articles provide
forage for horses work on The needed
repairs. Work an extra hour to sustain
and promote your schools. The teachers
VIII toll many an hour for your children,
A school supported or even aided by
yourselves will do you tenfold more good
than a school wholly maintained by the
charity of others.
Thus far the colored people have nobly
fulfilled the hopes. of their true friends.
Keep on, and never fail. When the free
school of New England is spread all over
the South, then our people will become
one people, dwelling together in unity +;
they will become great and owerful,
mutually respecting and helping each
other, and an example to all the world.
God speed the timel
JOHN A. ANDREW,
President.
Boston, Mass, Sept: I, 1866.
The Constitutional Amendment, abol-
ishing slavery, has been ratified by the
following States:
Illinois, February /, 1865.
Rhode Island, February g..
Maryland, February 3.
Massachusetts, February 8.
New York, February 8:
Pennsylvania, February 3
West Virginia, February 8.
Michigan, February 4.
Maine, February Z.
Ohio, February 8.
Kansas, February g..
Minnesota, February,8.
East Virginia, February 9.
Indiana, February Ii.
Nevada, February Is.
Louisiana, February II.
Missouri, February "a.
Wisconsin, February "a.
Vermont, March 8.
Tennessee, April 5.
Arkansas, April =.
Connecticut, May f.
Iowa, June 80.
New Hampshire, June 80.
1t has been rejected by the following
States:
Delaware, February S, 1866. i
Kentucky, February %.
New Jersey, March 1.
1t is expected that Colorado (the new
State) will soon ratify the amendment,
and that enough of the reconstructed
Southern States, to assure its adoption,
will soon do it.
The unkindest cut of all to James Bu-
chanan,> who served the Southern trai-
tors with a servility unsurpassed in the
history of the country, is given in the
late letter of Hen. Kenneth Rayner to
DR.. William Elder, of Washington.
Rayner puts his deliberate opinion on re-
cord thus
81 must say that | regard James Bu-
ehanan as more responsible for the disas-
ters and horrors of the last four years
than any man in the nation. The peo-
pie of the South had very kind feelings
for him. In fact, he was more popular
with the ultra men of the South, on &C
count of his connivance at the Kansas
outrage, his dogma about having no
power to eoerce a State, &C., than he was
with the Union men. A remonstrance
from him, a warning, a declaration that
he must maintain the authority of the
Government and.see that the laws were
executed-this, coming from a friend,
would have inducnd tho saooce;or x