New Orleans Republican., 1868-11-13

OF the Bureau, William II. Sinclair,
prepared from the records Of his Office. II
IS not Claimed that this report is complete.
From variety of causes it would be i'm
possible to make it 80. No systematic
method was adopted for obtaining such in
formation until about eighteen months ago.
Even since agents have been required to
make reports, from which the subjoined
statement is collated, all the cases have
not been reported. The State is 30 large,
agents so widely scattered, and the means
of obtaining information so few and unre-
liable, it can not be done. The records
from which the report is prepared gives
statements in detail, showing causes which
actuated the perpetrators Of many of these
crimes, and the circumstances of cruelty
and torture attending them of most re-
voting and fiendish character"
THE BALANCE SHEET OF MURDER FOR TEXAS
The report of Inspector Sinclair, 10 which
allusion is made, shows, from the close Of
the war to the thirtieth of September, 1868,
the following figures: Murders of freed
people by persons whose color is unknown,
"; Of freed people by whites, 464; of
whites by whites, 253; of whites by per-
sons of unknown color, IL; Of whites by
freed people, 6; total, officially reported,
I61; whites shot and stabbed but not killed,
Sc; negroes shot aud stabbed but not killed,
2l3; Bureau Agents killed, 6; negroes
whipped, 1853; whites, none; number of
persons hung by civil authorities, only one,
freedman.
The feeling among the planters and the
freed people in the cotton and cane region,
/, e., the Southern portion of the State, is
much better than heretofore, while in the
Northern and Eastern portions of the State
the reverse is the case. Every day reports
reach me ofthe killing Of Union men or freed
people, and OF their having been, when not
killed, driven from their homes by acts OF
violence and warnings as to their fate if
they did not leave.
THIRST FOR IGNORANCE.
General Reynolds embodies in his report
that Of his Superintendent Of Education,
from which we make the following extract
Much difficulty is experienced in obtain
ing and supporting competent and efficient
teachers, owing to the bitterness OF preju-
dice which still exists against the educa-
tion of the colored people. 1t is almost
Impossible to obtain boarding places for
those engaged in tie work, especially in
the case of ladies who may be sent by
after parties may be found who will bear
the odium of boarding "nigger teachers" !"
as they are termed, there is no protection,
civil or military, against the cowardly in-
suits to which they are subjected and in
enduring which there is no sympathy or
encouragement on the part OF those who
in other respects are loyal to the govern
ment
1t is the conviction of the Superintendent
that upon the subject of education of the |
sentiment among the great mass of the
pcople-between those who are loyal and
those who are not.
The teachers furnished by the American
Missionary Association, who are very faith |
tul and competent, went home at the close
of June, and have not heard of their in |
tended return. Their places have been |
supplied by the best material that could be |
obtained, and though very inferior to the
teachers, it is, in the mind Of the
of doubtful propriety to
ask for their return in the present disturbed |
state of the public mind.
1t would be very desirable and of great |
service if the association could send us
some male teachers, as homes could be
found with less difficulty, and they would
be less exposed to insult and outrage.
As an indication of the extent of the op-
position met with in our work | submit the |
cases from official information in |
my possession:
TEXAS USES OF scHooLHoUsEs.
prosperous school at Circleville, Will |
Hanson county, under the care of Miss
Louanna Eggleston, young colored lady
of experience and discretion, was closed
by the burning Of the house on Saturday
night, the twenty-seveuth of June, no fire
having been used in or near the building.
At Clarksville, Red River county, a
school in charge Of the Rev. Charles Gold
berg, a Presbyterian clergyman, was
broken up by band of young men call
ing themselves Ku-klux and Mr.. Goldberg
compelled to leave the State
At kaufman, Kaufman county. the school
house was nearly destroyed by being beaten
down, July %, and an attempt made to
the teacher, Mr.. Maier, who
escaped into Missouri.
AT Mfllican, Brazos county. hourishing
school, taught by the Rev. J. Hensley and
wife, was broken up by the riot of July,
aud the teachers compelled to leave to save
heir lives.
have just been informed by the Sub
Assistant Commissioner, at Waco, of the
murder of one of our teachers in Fallo
county, and that another in Bosque county
las been run off and compelled to seek
'aiety in Waco. have also to-day been
JAILED upon by the teacher from Jefferson,
Marion county, who closed his school for
aiety and left few days previous to the
ecent murderous outbreak in that town.
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