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Hillsborough Recorder (NC)

Hillsborough Recorder (NC)

May 1, 1861

Page 3

 

            TENDERS OF SERVICE—The Baltimore American says: “Yesterday morning between two and three hundred of our most respectable colored residents made a tender of their services to the city authorities.  The Mayor thanked them for their offer, and informed them that their service will be called for if they can be made in any way available.”

            A letter in the Petersburg (Va.) Express, dated at Norfolk on the 23rd instant, says: “The negroes in all this section of the country, slave and free, are as loyal as could be desired.  They freely proffer their services to the State, and zealously contend for the privilege of being allowed to work on the batteries.  Yesterday Gen. Gwyn declined the services of three hundred from Hampton who solicited employment on the batteries, and twice and thrice the number could be obtained in this city and vicinity in a single day, if it was thought advisable to accept them.  Indeed, the entire fortifications of this harbor might be constructed by the voluntary labors of negroes, who would claim no higher reward that the privilege of being allowed to contribute their share toward the defence [sic] of the State, and the protection of their masters and mistresses, who had always extended a sheltering hand over them.”

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