The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-15
Superintendent of Educati'
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Aban'dl
! Lands, Office State Sup't of Education,
For the State of Mississippi,
Nicksburr Miss 1866

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For the State of Mississippi,
NicksbuTg, Miss, --------- 1866.
-:-The education of the Freedmen
occupies the thoughts of many at this time.
| have received many applications for teach
ers of colored people on plantations, and
have no doubt the demand for them will
steadily increase. | have thus been induced
to prepare this letter, in order to give infOr-
nation and to offer my services as agent, to
all who wish to procure teachers-tO mana
gers of plantations and their people, and to
the colOred people in towns | am paid by
the Government to aid this cause, and wish
no compensation from those whom | may
serve
If arrangements can be made soon enough,
l shall be able to supply great number of
teachers. They may be engaged as individ-
uals, or through Freedmen's aid Societies.
Disabled soldiers, and any other class of per-
sons, duly qualified, Southern and Northern.
may often be heard of through me; for many
applications are made to me for employ
ment.
The teachers from Northern societies
coming as missionaries, are the cheapest
They do not seek to make money. They are
generally engaged for their travelling ex-
penses down and back, and their board and
twenty dollars a month. As an average,
these teachers are incOmparably the best
that are available. | have personal ac-
quaintance with about fifty now in this
State and do not believe there is among
them one fanatical agitator, or one whose
work viii not be beneficial to the employers
interests as well as the laborers. The tales
that are told of these teachers, that they
are unchaste, miscegenatiOnists, promoters
of social equality between employers and
labOrers, encouragers of idleness, &c, are
unfounded, unprovoked, wilful, designing
slanderers. They are uttered by those who
wish to provoke and perpetuate i'll feeling
toward the North, and are often repeated
from mere ignorance. l repel these SLAM
derers, and offer to furnish to families and
towns, teachers of this class, whose conduct
may be watched and scrutinized in the
closest manner, without any anxiety for the
result to their friends
The COlOred peUp.e can furnish some
teachers, and 50 far this supply will go,
am ready to help them get places. There
are many of them sufficiently educated
who are too young to be steady and reliable
as teachers. Such of them as go ont on
| plantations will require to be assured by
| written contract, that they shall be pro-
! tected and well treated.
l have expressed to Northern people, my
belief that teachers will be safe in this
| State during the ensuing year. 1t is be-
coming manifest, that the colored people
will prefer those places, where they may en-
! JOY educational privileges anC therefore
it will be the interest and pleasure of those
who employ them to give protection, facil-
tiles and help to their teachers0
| 1 wish for particular information, from
| those who ask for teachers, regarding num-
| Der of pupils, accommodation for school,
what arrangement is proposed for board and
travelling expenses of teacher, what month
| ly pay will be given beside board, and what
description of teacher is required. 1t will
! be necessary that this information include a
| guaranty Ofthe amount promised by some
responsible person.
There will be kept at this office, for sale
at New York wholesale prices, Sanders
Primer, Speller and Reader Monteiths
! Biographies Clarks Grammars Thorn
sons Arithmeties. These are intended to
be sold to any cOlOred school that will adopt
them. A considerable saving is made by
using these books instead of depending on
ordinary bookstores l recommend them
uniformly to be used throughout the State.