Office Of Superintendent Of Blacks,
Newbern, N. C., June 6th, 1863.
Respecting Teachers, I am ready to assure you, from General
Foster himself, that he will afford them military protection, government
rations, and as good a dwelling place as the circumstances will allow. We have
but one Newbern in the department. Here they will have a good house to live in.
At Beaufort it would be much the same. But on Roanoke Island, and perhaps at
Plymouth and Washington, certainly at Hatteras, we could not supply them so
comfortably. I am confident there will be no trouble on this point. Still I
wish that those who are sent may share largely in a missionary spirit, and come
out here expecting to teach and to live in a log shanty, or even in a tent, if
we can do no better for them. Let them aspire to emulate their brothers in
self-denial, who have preceded them here in the regiments, and with the sword
have cut a passage for the army of Educators' to follow on.
Horace James.
SOURCE: New-England Educational Commission for
Freedmen, Extracts from Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the
New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen, Fourth Series, January 1, 1864,
p. 7
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