F.B. Marshall, the Treasurer of the Hampton Institute, who
had had faith enough to lend us the first two hundred and fifty
dollars with which to make a payment down on the farm. He remained
with us a week, and made a careful inspection of everything. He
seemed well pleased with our progress, and wrote back interesting and
encouraging reports to Hampton. A little later Miss Mary F. Mackie,
the teacher who had given me the "sweeping" examination when I entered
Hampton, came to see us, and still later General Armstrong himself
came.
At the time of the visits of these Hampton friends the number of
teachers at Tuskegee had increase considerably, and the most of the
new teachers were graduates of the Hampton Institute. We gave our
Hampton friends, especially General Armstrong, a cordial welcome.
They were all surprised and pleased at the rapid progress that the
school had made within so short a time. The coloured people from
miles around came to the school to get a look at General Armstrong,
about whom they had heard so much. The General was not only welcomed
by the members of my own race, but by the Southern white people as
well.
This first visit which General Armstrong made to Tuskegee gave me
an opportunity to get an insight into his character such as I had not
before had.
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