The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-12-24
Funeral of a COIOred Woman.

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Of the funeral of the wife of Edmund Douglass
n Missionary to Liberia, whom i'll health had
driven back to this country. We witnessed
a spectacle, on Monday last, which was
most beautiful illustration slavery and which
it had been we'll for the revilers of our "pcc"lar
Institution" to have seen. 1t was the solemn
and imposing (mneral pagcaAt Of the wife of
Edmund Doug lass, . coIored preacher of this
city. Some four years ago, Edmund was sent
out as a missionary 20 Liberia, under the
auspices of the American Colonization Society
and in connection with the missionary enter
prise of the NJ. F.. Church. He labored faith
fully and successfully there rs 4 minister, until
the i'll health of himself and family compelled
them to return. In FEBRUARY last he came back
and received cordial greeting from the people
among whom he had lived for many years.
and whose confidence and respect he had long
shared. Edmund has ever been held in high es-
TEEN as man of rietv and prudence, and we
were glad to welcom,!him back to the scene of
his former labors, but panied to find him wasted
by the fever peculiar to the climate Of his
missionary tolls. His wife had suffered even
more severely, and after lingering for several
mOlltllS was CdIleu lOlll SNiiOihiSS W iOFflIuS
Her corpse was followed by an immense pro-
crss;on, of those who hocked to do honor to
one who had fallen martyr in the noble
ENTERPRISE of missions. There were nineteen
carriages in the train, making it larger by
far, than is usual among the funerals of our
white population. 1t was tribute wellbestow-
ell because deserved, and We were rejoiced TO
see il. 1t was an evidence of the estimate
placed on fidelity among the colored people in
our midst, and in this respect, was not an ex.
cepton to rule that is general in its appca-
,ion in the SOUTH Although the concourse
that attended this funeral was larger than usual
among colored persons, yet we have witnessed
many professions connected with the burial Of
their rebuked the ISLANDERS so malicious y propa-
rated against US iu reference TO our course to.
ward odr negroes. Our neigllbors north, who
are so industrious as under ground railroad
agents, have and an abundance Of lp.phitan
Mropy can talk most christianity Of their symp
athv for the down trodden children of Ham,
and profess large affection for them; yet, when
it comes to the true test of such hilanlhropy
and sympathy they are "found wanting" We
would be glad if the more honest among them
could see our churches for the negro population
the facilities for culture in matters of religion
afforded them in our ciiv-listen to the songs
of praise and thanksgiving which 60 up to
high heaven from their sanctuares aud home
altars-o observe the respect awarded those OF
them who are worthy to receive it and the
happiness and contcntment they enjoy under
all this. 1t would subdue much of that bitter
ness whereby we arc assailvd by PERSONS who
know not what they do. As to others who
arc Influenced by sel6>h considerations; who
f,llow in the wake of abolitonsm only to
se:ure the loaves and fishes, and who, in the
absence of the personal profits accruing from
the concern would feel but little interest for
the -Llaak ,,an.-"s f,r them. we have no hope
that they would be persuadncd though one
were to rise from the dead. and rebuke their
theving prorensies.