The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-17
Colored stafe Convenf

At the recent State convention of the
cOlored people ia Nashville, the following
report Of the condition of freedmen in Giles
was read and received. Our county GER
lainly has her proportion Of cOlOred me-
ehanies:
Number of acres worked on shares-1st
district, 100 acres; Cd, !, 300 acres; Sd,
500 acres; 4th, 200 acres; 5th, 800 acres;
9Th, / 500 acres; 18th. I, 200 acres; 9Th,
], $50 acres; 9th, /, 1884 acres; 10th, 1856
acres; 18th. 1900 acres; 18th, 1900
acres; 18th, 1904 acres; 14th, 1854 acres;
18th, !, 800 acres; 18th, / ,375 acres; 18th,
30 acres; 18th, 900 acres; 18th, 700
acres; and Goth, 400 acres. In the county
are 1875 boot and shoe makers, s63 house
| carpenters. 1873 blacksmiths and 8 colored
schools.
The following communication from Rev.
DR.. seys. Springfield. Ohio. was read and
referred to a committee. 1t contains some
statements which win be new to most of
our readers:
NASHVILLE, Aug. s, 1866.-The Meth
odist Episcopal Church has appropriated.
during the year 1866, the sum of $500, 900
for the benefit of the colored people in the
Southern States. Of this, $4,000 was de-
signed for Nashville, Tenn. A conference
of white and coioreds all on the same foot
ing, is to be organized Oh the 18th of Oc-
tober next, at Murfresboro; when colored
! men properly recommended will be receiv-
ed on trial, others ordained, and all station
ed, and their salaries paid by the Mission
airy Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. It is contemplated to form two
colOred districts, employing white Presid-
ing Elders, until there can be found colored
men of education and talents to qualify
them for the Office of Presiding Elders
The Methodist Episcopal Church posses all
the funds and means, men and money, TO
take care of and educate all the freedmen
and their children who viii come with her
communion, and do this without respect of
race or color.
The following communication is from the
Giles county delegation. The first pream-
bic contains batch Of falsehoods too glar-
ing to have been endorsed by Fred Clack
and Willis Bramlett, and too malicious to
have been concocted in any brain but that
of some low down white scamp:
PULASKI, Aug. 1, 1866.-Gentlemen of
| the Committee: We the undersigned dele
gates of the town Of Pulaski and county of
Giles, being duly authorized by our con-
stituents to make some expression of their
wants before your Honorable Body, do pre-
sent the following memorial:
Whereas, In the absence of military pro-
lection, and lack on the part of the civil
authorities to give protection and aid to our
freedmen they, time after time, have been
shamefully abused. shot down and killed,
without the least proVocation,
Resolved, That some notice of their
grievances be taken by the Convention, and
an appeal made to the authorities for a re-
dress Of our wrong.
Whereas, In nanny villages and in the
rural districts of our county, we are desti-
tute of schools and teachers; therefore,
/ Resolved, That we respectfully ask the
| Convention to take some steps 10 their de-
| alterations by which our restitution in this
respect may be supplied.
/ Fred. Clack, R. Mitchell, w. Brsmlett,
W. ShOate, Aaron Ware.
The report by R. P. Clark, Of the condi-
ton of the freedmen in Giles county, is as
/ follows:
The freedmen in Giles county are doing
as we'll toward making living as elsewhere
10 the State. Many have absented them
selves from the towns and villages, and
gone into the country and procured farms
to tend, some on shares, doing remarkably
well. Those employed to work on farms
get pretty fair wages, and, with few excep
tons, are treated well. Some have been
subjected to severe abuse from the hands OF
white men, and when the authorities have
been appealed to for redress, they have
failed to obtain it.
To my knowledge, the county affords
four different schools and FIVE teachers, with
the following number of scholars: School
No. /, taught by myself and wife, under the
auspices of the Freedmen's Aid Commits
sion-scholaFs enrolled, 1862, with IA In the
alphabet, 148 in spelling, 1876 in reading,
and 4 in history. School No. 2 is taught
by a Mr.. Pitman, about four miles from
Pulaski, with about forty scholars. School
No. 3 is taught by Mr.. Thornton, about
two miles from Pulaski, with sixteen pu-
pills. School No. 4, in Pulaski, is taught
by Mr.. William Rose, with thirteen schol-
ars. The three last schools are self-sup-
porting, and, as far as I know, are in good
condition, and making a total of 229 schol-
ars.
There are three churches. one Methodist
and two Baptist. Two church buildings
are owned by colored organizations, one
Methodist and Baptist. There is one Sab
bath School, supeFintended by myself. and
numbering IS scholars and IS teachers
The carpenters number ten. with one
shop owned; blscksmiths number eleven
with four shops owned; the wagon makers
are two, with one shop owned; tie brick
layers and plastereFs number about ten.
The business houses carried on By color
ed men are as follows: Four dry goods anC
grocery stores, three eating saloons, anC
one drinking saloon. One of the above il
a wholesale aud retail store, owned anC
conducted by Messrs. Fisher q Harris, anC
it will, for business and system, compet
with any in the town.
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