New-York tribune., 1867-04-27
AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSoCIATOM
To N. Fdi,or Of II. T-ihnr,.

To a. Editor Of The Trisunc.
SIR The persistent efforts OF your correspondent
g. Wilton to crimiultc the American Missionary Asso
citation are unaccouHtabe VIII you permit the following
explicit denia9
l. The American Missionary Association has. for more
than % years been battling against slavery ard caste
Ions before the Rebellion commenced it had estaDshea
by It's missionaries churches and schools in the Slave
States the interchangeable basis that there shOu DC 9
distinction on account 0f color and that no leIso OS
DE excluded or precuded from equal, impartial pnNleSus
account thereof q II has never, directly or huecy,
teacher that was not understood to stand on TINS basis
The school referred 10 by your correspondent - az
WSefbeP he might furnish teacher to school
under the charge Of the school COmisSoIci oditinn
that It should be clearly understood that no person pG
sh%@ Wh pc we eTe told by Mf Wilton that the rule
not understood by the people, our INSTRUCTIONS wiz ~
again given to our superintendent that no person was to
be excluded on account Of color from any school suS
famed or aided by us and that II c0ored child applied
ar that schoOroom door, he to be admitted even II
n broke up the school g. He does not correctly quote
from In the only letter written to him on TINS snp
ject he was distinctly told that while we regretted hiS
of making the issue the rule must be enforced
and the Superintendent had been so INSTRUCTED O. de
certificate signed 10y d. NJ Henderson ana hachei fh,
has only just fallen under our notice We know hotnlg
OF the case unless IL be the 1olloTg @ We o rre re
by our teachers that after several White persons Wee E re-
fused admittance account Of the crowded Se OF thc
told by the teacher that the school full and
queSted 10 apply TO the superintendent 10 assign MN MS
place in the schools He did not make such application
ground. some of whom by years Of faithful labor among
blacks than tie phteS.
GEQRGE wHrPLE, Secretaries.
NJ. L. STRIEBY,
EDWARD p. SMITH, General Field Agent.
Your letter OF inquiry about complaints against the
school is received. think can state few facts
ought set the minds of those agtated about the
matter at rest When the white school commenced,
early in January, il Immediately filled TO the utmost
capacity Of the occupied. the ability OF the
teacher there being about 100 scholars The Freed
mems schools highly prosperous cOndluOh'
being held in cOmmOdiOus house, with fine graded dc
partments and efficient corps of teachers with ABOUT
so scholars each g. After several white persons were e
fused admittce account OF the crowded state t the
school cOlOred young man presented hllnSel ana was
told the teacher that the school was fu ana requested
tO apply the superintendent TO assign him his place III
the schools He did not make such application: Ihere
any application for admission 10 the schoOI
made for the purpose OF attending there or any WISH OF
expectation of becoming permanent scholar as was a-
Inted S. our principles were never concealed or us
guiSed but distinctly stated in the January number or
The American Missionary which was extensively READ III
Beaufort by both white and cOlOTed citizens.
IL but Just the majority Of the cOlOred ctzens
to say that efforts To disturb the arrangement OF the
schools confined 10 few young men, led on by bau
counsel. Yours truly II. ;; BLAls, sept.
We the undersigned, teachers under the A. M A. can
certify the correctness of the above statements ana
that approve of the pursued by the super
intenCent i'm regard TO the matter.
JOHN SCOTT, MARY L.. ADAMS
EMMA Is. EVEIBTH, SARAH A. BEALE,
MARY d. WILLIAMS AMY l.. CHAPMAN.
NetpY0rk, April 26, 1867.