New Lisbon., Ia,
Oct. 14, 1848.
Messrs. Editors:ー
At the Annual Meeting of the donors of the Union Literacy Institute, held at Newport, Wayne county, Indiana, on motion, it was
Resolved, That a statement, brief and distinct, be drawn up and transmitted, with a request for publication, to the Cincinnati Weekly Globe, the Free Territory Sentinel, and the North Star.
In obedience to that resolution, the following statement has been prepared, and is now sent to you, by the insertion of which in your paper, you will, as I believe, subserve the cause of humanity in general, and the interests of the people of color in particular.
Your friend,
EBENEZER TUCKEREbenezer Tucker

Ebenezer Tucker (1819-85), an educator and Congregational minister born in Cherry Hill, New York, spent the years 1846-1855 and 1873-1879 as principal of the Union Literary Institute in Randolph County, Indiana. In 1846 antislavery Quakers and others established the school to educate an African American population, and it received a charter from the state legislature in 1848. Though founded primarily for African Americans, the school was willing to serve pupils of all races, religions, and social classes. Students, most twelve years old and up, learned manual labor skills as well as traditional subjects. Some boarded at the school while others were day students. Tucker served as president of Liber College in Jay County, Indiana, and later taught at Straight University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and at Tougaloo University in Tougaloo, Mississippi. Philadelphia Non-Slaveholder, February 1847, October 1849; Indianapolis News, 13 April 1885; Emma Lou Thornbrough, The Negro in Indiana before 1900: A Study of a Minority (1957; Bloomington, Ind., 1993), 173-78; Ebenezer Tucker, History of Randolph County (Chicago, 1882), 43, 172-73, 179-80, 195. .