The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-15
JOSEPH WARREN,
Superintendent of Education
bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Aband
4 Lands, Office State Sup't of Education, (
For the State of Mississippi,


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 culoUed 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 ntOr-
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 l may
serve.
II arrangements can be made soon enough,
| shall be able to supply a great number OF
| teachers. They may be engaged as lndlvld-
uals OF 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
meut.
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, one whose
/ work VIII not be beneficial to the employers
! interests as well as the laborer's. The tales
| that are told Of these teachers, that they
/ are uuchaste, miscegenatlonlsts, promoters
of social equality between employers and
| laborers, encouragers of idleness, &c, are
| uufounded. unprovoked, wiltul, designing
! slanderers. They are uttered by those who
| wish to provoke and perpetuate i'll feeling
] 4 ka am arc nttp ed
/ from mere ignorance. l repel these slam
/ derers, and offer to furnish to families and
/ towns, teachers of this class, whose conduct
| iiIoy bo watched and scrutiuized in the
! closest manner, without any anxiety Tor the
result to their friends
The COlored peVr-e can furnish some
| teachers and 50 far as this supply will 90, |
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 go out on
plantations viii require to be assured, by
written contract, that they shall be pro
tected and well treated.
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
viii prefer those places, where they may en-
joy educational privileges; anC therefore
it viii be the interest and pleasure of those
who employ them to give protection, facil
ltles and help 10 their teachers.l
| wish for particular information, from
those who ask for teachers, regarding mum
Der of pupils, accommodation for school
what arrangement is proposed for board and
travelling expenses of teacher, what month
ly pay viii 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 viii be kept at this office, for sale
at New York wholesale prices, Sanders
Primer, Speller and Reader MOnteith's
Biographies Clark's Grammarsi 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 | recommend them
uniformly to be used throughout the State