The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-12-03
OUR NEW HAVEN LETTER.
NEW HAVEN, Nov. %. IS5

NEW HAVEN, Nov. %, 1859
DEAR ANGLO: The rumor that was ri,
culated in this city month since to the Of
feet that the Rev. Mr.. Cato. of Washing
ton, ID. c., had accepted call from til.
Temple-street Congregational Church, and
would enter upon his duties the second
Sunday in November, was premature, and
had no foundation in fact / make Hi,
statement because the rumor found nl..,
IN one OF my letters several weeks sim,
A call has been extended to him, and il !,
expected that he will accept it; and !,
deed, fresh rumor now says that he h.,
definitely done so, and has promised to OFT
his Christmas dinner in New Haven. h..
the truth of this report is doubtful, as !.
comes from the same unreliable sourco ..
the previous one-viz: General Rnmo,
However, "we shall see what we shall 500
and all that we can do in the meantimo
without wishing any harm to the Wash
ingtonians for their loss, is to labor ,Dl
wait, and pray that we may finally Obtain
so noble an accession to our clerical force,
in this city as this gifted divine.
A quarterly meeting was held in fl.
Zion A. M. E. Church, of which the Rev
George Washington is elder in charge la,
Sunday, the goth inst. The Revs. Messr
Spywood and Giles were present to assist
the pastor in the interesting services on that
occasion.
The Rev. Mr.. Stanford, of the BetbqI
A. nj. E. Church, is now absent from thu
city, on a visit to his native State, New
Jersey, whittier he went to spend Thanks.
giving day.
This politico-religious feast passed Of
here yesterday with appropriate religious
and social festivities. The Zion Methodist
and st. Luke's Episcopal iChurche8 were
the only ones open among our people fI
religious services. AT st. Luke's Church.
the rector requested the prayers of the con.
gregation for the five men under sentence
of death in Virginia, and made use of an
appropriate prayer in the Episcopal ltur
gy during the services for that PURPOSE
In lions Church, Immediately after the
morning services, a meeting was convened
to consider what religious action should be
taken by the colored religious public Of
New Haven in reference to John Brown
| and his fellow-sufferers The Rev. John
Jones was called to the chair, and Thomas
Stewart, Esq, was appointed Secretary
The result of this meeting was the issuing
OF an invitation for mass religious meet
ing of the colored citizens of New Haven.
to be held next Thursday, Dee. /, to de-
cipe upon proper solemnities to be obser.
ed on the following day, when the great
martyr of liberty is to be executed.
1t has been rumored that certain colored
men in our city have made arrangements
to get up dancing party, or something Of
the kind, on the very day that Brown is to
be executed. | hear that circulars have
already been issued to that effect, but |
hBve not seen them; but if it be true that
any colored man or woman can be SO reck.
less and regardless of the blood of that
martyr, which will cry from the ground
unto Heaven for vengeance, and so indf
ferent to the cause of PROSTATE and bleed
ing liberty, as to insult the religious 50
IDENTITIES Of that day by a shindy, then
such persons should be made to wither IN.
der the scathing rcbuke of an Indignant
public sentiment
The Solree referred to in my last, from
some unexplained cause, did not take place
on Thursday evening, and the public is at
a loss to know whether the affair has only
been postponed or definitely abandoned.
Nothing of a public social character took
place among our people on Thanksgiving
day except tea given in the basement Of
Zion Church, for the benefit of the pastor
but this was not as well attended as the
self-sacrifcing zeal Of this man of God de-
serves at the hands of the New Hayel
public.
There is one little incident that cam'
under the notice of our benevolent pubE
this week that added to the heartiness Of
their thanksgiving to Almighty God on The
day appointed. Five fugitive slaves, from
the vicinity of Harpers Ferry, Va, arriv'
ed in our city in destitute and suffering
condition, after a perilous escape from tb
clutches of the legalized man-stealers Of
this guilty nation Their wants were IN
mediately supplied, and their tempora
comforts attended to, and they were sem
on their way rejoicing to the domlnlon' o
Her Brittanic Majesty, on the eve O
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