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2 Nat'l Freedman 1 (1866)

handle is hein.slavery/ntlfredm0002 and id is 1 raw text is: T II E oual Free A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE Vol. II. $EW YORK, JANUARY 15, 1866. No. 1. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT Of the New York National Freedman's Relief Association, for the year 1865, STATEMENT AND APPEAL. Ix presenting our Fourth Annual Report we have a few earnest words to say to the friends of the four millions of the lately enfranchised people of the South. A perusal of the report shows that nearly one half of our annual income ($142,405.23) has been 'ontributed and expended for the physical relief of those who have been left destitute by Ed0ery and the convulsions of war. This demand, we trust, will not be so great in another season. And yet be who expects four millions of slaves suddenly emancipated in the midst of war, in the short space of one or five years to present no Objects of pity, no aged, no sick, no orphans, to be supported by charity, is expecting what has never been true of the same number of white people anywhere. For educational purposes we have been able to expend, including our liabilities for the current school season, about $120,000. This amount has enabled us to support in the field a little over two hundred teachers, who have under their instruction about ten thousand pupils. Certainly not over one thousand two hundred (1200) teachers are employed by the various branches of the American Freedmen's Aid Commission and other Socie- ties who educate the fiedmen, and they have less than eighty thousand (80,000) pupils in their schools. We believe we are safe in saying that there are one million of freemen and their children who are eager for the instruction provided by. free common schools. The twenty lhousand teachers (20,000) needed for this number of pupils would require, estimating $500 as the annual cost of each teacher, $10,000,000, or, according to the estimate of a writer in the New York Evening Post, $30,000,000 for three years. This is a large sum. But it is less than the cost of two weeks of war-of the war which was the result of the ignorance of the masses in the Southern States. Great as this sum appears, it is but ten dollars annually for each pupil. We submit to the Christian, the statesman, and the patriot, of a land which boasts of its free- dom, and of its noble institutions for The free education of every white child within its borders, whether it would not be economy, in more ways than one, to extend the same provision for the free education of these the Nation's wards whom God, by a mighty arm, has laid at our doors, with the evident command: Go, teach this child.

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