The Portland daily press., 1881-06-16

pathy and cooperation in our efforts to aid
and elevate them to the plane of true Ameri-
can citizenship.
We greatly desire that the representative
meetings may be led to form committees to
care for the Freedmen, as they long have done
for the Indians. Both races seem to us to
claim equally your care and protection, while
much greater results accompany our efforts in
educating and training the Freedmen-a fact
very encouraging to those who engage in the
work. They are gratefully willing to be edu-
Gated and trained in the upright ways of life.
1t lifts them up; it encourages and enables
them to become men and women in the truest
sense. 1t gives them the chance to become
what our Bible would have them be. Then,
is it not our duty, so far as we can, to afford
them the advantages needed? Shall we be
clear when the neglect, imposition and abuse
of these people shall appear against our nation
in the great reckoning with our one Creator.
Signed.-Committee of Timbered Hills
Monthly Meeting:
5 T. M. PICKERING, Prest.,
LAURA A. HAvILAND, and others.
Signed Committee of Kansas Yearly Meet
ing:
j. E. PICKERING, Prest,
MATILDA HAwwoRTH, Sec'y.
Also letter from Gov. ST. John, of Kansas,
endorsing both Elizabeth L. Comstock and
Laura Haviland, viz:
STATE OF KANSAS,
Executive Department.,
TOPEKA, March 81, 1881.
To Dhone it may concern:
The bearers hereof, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Com
stock and Laura Haviland have been engaged
in connection with the work of the Freed
mems Relief Association of this place during
the past eighteen months, and it affords me
pleasure to state that they and each OF them
are in every respect worthy the confidence and
esteem of all good people everywhere.
OWING tn the great numhar of deStituta co1-
ored refugees congregated here at Topeka
where the relief work has been carried on for
nearly two years, it has been found difficult to
secure work for the colored people to en-
able them to support themselves Since it
has been thought advisable to transfer the
work of the association from Topeka to some
. other point where the opportunities for secur-
ing employment for the refugees are more IA
vorable, any favors extended to Mrs Com
stock or Mrs. Haviland in connection with
their labors for the down-trodden and op-
pressed, will be duly appreciated.
JOHN P. ST. JOHN.
A discussion Of this subject then ensued and
Margaret B. Gates read the following minute
prepared by the women's meeting. referring to
this concern:
Our dear friend, Elizabeth L. Comstock,
has made an earnest appeal in this meeting on
behalf of the suffering refugees in Kansas
which called forth response in our hearts
Donations of clothing and money! are still
greatly needed to aid them, especially during
the coming winter, and we are united in ap.
pointing a committee of three from each
monthly meeting to present the matter to their
different monthly meeting, to assist them in
collection of goods and funds for their relief
and forward them to Kansas to be ready for
distribution in the Fall.
Whereupon the whole matter was referred
to committee of three men from each quar-
terly meeting who shall unite with similar
committee of women. A nominating commit
tee to select such, was then appointed of two
from each quarterly meeting
Reading of the records of the representative
meeting at Newport, June, 1880. was proceed.
ed with, also the record of the main body a
the meeting held on the first day of this ses-
sion, signed by Henry T. Wood clerk.
FREEDMEN's NORMAL INSTITUTE.
The committee on the Freedmens Normal
Institute at Marysville, Tenn, reported. 1t
appears by this that the school has been under
the charge of VIM. P. Hastings. At the first
of the term the number of pupils fell some
what below that of former years, but before
the end of the term they reached 2o7 and the
per cent of enrolment and attendance never
was larger. Fifty have been in the normal
class Seventy-two have been employed as
teachers at an expense of from $50 to 1878 per
month.
The dormitory has been nearly finished,
providing self boarders with the means of thus
providing for themselves. A 900 pound bell
has been purchased by money raised BY SUBJ
scription and mounted in the belfry. Some
off I;nr~
security against fire. A.-large room has been
fitted up as hall or lecture room, and one on
the ground floor for meetings. An insurance
of $4,000 has been effected at low rate.
Instruction has been in English branches.
geology of Tennessee, bookkeeping, Latin and
natural philosophy.
The treasurer of this committee reports:
Total expenditure ...... SS47 90
Total rec'ts from all sources. s65O6O
Given by friend to bal. acct. Ice. 40
Total .................. $4,000
of 81, 600
Signed by
BENJAMIN F. KNOWLES,
for the committee.
Accompanying this was the report of the
Principal, VIM. p. Hastings.
This was in great part repetition of that
presented by the committee:
Whole number of school days, 1877.
enrolled, POT.
Average number daily 90.
In teachers training class, 81.
Sent out to teach, SO.
Boarders SO.
Number teaching in different States. ~.
Cost of board to each self-boarder per week Toe
Whole number of boarders in building and else
where, 81.
Monthly Meeting, At.
Sabbath schools have been maintained and
the religious interest has been good. The COM
mittee report the death of Ann Maria Coffin.
The meeting accepted the report after striking
out reference to Chas G. Cofin-referring
to the finance committee the request for an
appropriation-and continued as their commit
tee
Benz. +. Knowles. Hannah j. Bailey.
Moses Bailey. Hannah r. SAWYER
Charles +. Coffin. Moses SAWYER
Gertrude W. Garland.
and expressed its appreciation of its commit
tees work.
&The assistant clerk read the report of the
educational committee, as follows. They re-
port that they attended the educational con-
vention at
HAvERFoRD COLLEGE,
near Philadelphia. At that convention the
yearly meetings were arranged into districts
for the better prosecution of educational work.
These are to be called the Eastern, Western,
and Middle division. Each division is to be
duly organized with its own corps of officers
Six children are to enter Haverford this Au-
tumn.
lnasmuch as there are now number of
young men for whom our yearly meeting is do
ing but little, in receipt of aid from Friends
IN Philadelphia, the committee recommend the
appropriation of $500 to aid young men of this
yearly meeting at Haverford, provided the
only expend such portion thereof as they shall
deem absolutely necessary. They also urge
that the attention of Eriends he directed mora