The Clerk read as follows: “As a sample of the carelessness of Governor Worth in his official statements I may mention the laws governing the apprenticing of children in NCarolina. In his message to the General Assembly at the commencement of the session, (November 19, 1866,) ah.e admits that in the matter of apprenticing there is jo made by the law of the State between white and black children, or rather between children of purely white parents and children, having some eyfeaainrst atrgaocesloafvensegarroebalosowd, hfioter masa their former owners. “One month later (the 19th December) he tells the President and GenlHoward that the law of NCarolina makes no distinction on account of color or race in the apprenticing of children; ar“yA, n 1867 ti, l)wlhaen no the r cmryon of lpaaterer, n(ttshweh2o9s the children had been torn from them and bound to cruci and hard taskmakers became so loud that the authorities could not shut their ears, and when the children, thus ruthlessly thrust into a slavery worse than that of other years, starving, freezing, sickening, and dying under the cruel treatment of their chivalrous masters and high born mistresses, at, last escaping told their piteous stories to officers of the Freedmen's sembly of NCarolina ntipl atshseend, atnheac General Aensd the 5th of the revised code, entitled ‘apprentices, ’ which act purports to".all laws discriminating between whites and blacks in the apprenticing of children; yet this same act in substance declares that the indentures of all children heretofore llegally apprenticed shall be declared legal and members of this General Assembly of NCarolina that all the children illegally bound were the children of negro parents. “Grant that the laws make no discrimination between whites and blacks, no one who is familiar with the action of the courts in the rebel States can for a moment suppose thas there nawtiilol nnomt baed, engahienfsuttu 3 negroes. There is scarcely a single case of apprenticing of children in this State during the past 8 months n ihnavwebheicehnrtehsepe State by law hescporuortteseting the "There are 100s of cases which might be cited to prove all that I have asserted concerning the action of the courts in this matter of apprenticing negro children. I will mention one or two, which will serve as examples., “Near Tarboro' 2 children, girls, one 11 and the proetnhteicretdhitrotetheeniryfeoarmrseorfow anger. The girls’s mother had formerly been whipped to death under the orders of the wife of the man to whom they are noticed, then the master and owner of the murdered woman who Reacreentstinilflohrmeladtiaosn apprentice tst, ahreese nearly starved and not half clad; the only garment they wore, while picking cotton in the inclement weather, of December, wasa straight gown, short in the skirt, and with short sleeves, with neither shoes, stockings, nor bonnets. laboring. father and 2 brothers of these, girls are engaged in for planting tl,eamnadntofrgoem the 3 arnoratbhouwth 6ty s adpolplarersntpiced without ntdhethceoirnsraetniotonfst.he The father, who has made repeated efforts to recover his daughters that he might send them to school, but thus far his efforts have been vain; and the girls are now held in a thceoynfdoirtmioner of slavery much worse than that in which lived. The younger of the 2 sons, now nearly o years of age, and who has during the past year been earning 20 dollars per month and whosmrahtiiosnssi, swears laarset fa apprenticed ti, cwedhotohtahse smue and phaisst former” employer for the wages of the boy for the