The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-03-03
Domt Corresponbtute.
OUR BALTIMORE LETTER.
BALrIMoRE, Feb. 81, 1860.

contrary notwithstanding. by invitation,
ran down to Union Bethel A. M. e.
Church, on Fell's Point, to be in attend
ance upon supplementary supper given
to their pastor, the Rev. VIM. FL. Waters.
The good things were in abundance--good
singing, good speaking, etc.-and the Ia
dies, at the close, presented their pastor
over sixty dollars.
The young ladies of old Bethel, headed
by Mrs. Eliza A. Tilghman, held bril-
liant fair for the benefit of their church re-
Gently. They realized nearly six hun
dred dollars, which Mrs. Il. presented to
the trustees in a neat address in behalf of
her lady friends.
The trustees of the same church, on the
evening of the 10th, gave grand dinnel.
1t was all the word ''grand" implies. At
the first table there were three hundred
and nine persons seated. The large lee
ture room of Bethel Church was filled to
its utmost capacity, and elegantly deco
rated. Better singing than that by Messrs.
BENZ. Murphy and Joseph Wheeler no one
need wish to hear.
The Ladies' Sewing Circle was made the
recipient of 500 loaves of bread to be dis
tributed to the poor. Mr.. John Wesley
Cephas presented the following address
for himself and sthe gentlemen and ladies
whose names it bears:
Mrs. President and ladies of the Sewing
Circle of Bethel Church: Your disinter-
ested benevolence, exertions, and humane
labors for the amelioration of the condition
of the suffering poor, deserve not only the
approval and countenance Of the generous
and noble hearted, but support by material
aid, which is so essentially necessary to
enable the ladies of the circle to accom-
plish their benevolent and praiseworthy
designs with results beftting their inten-
tons Americas most eminent son, the IL
lustrious hero, sage and patriot-the i'm
mortal Washington, whose natal day is
celebrated in social gatherings, at the fes-
tive board laden with all the luxuries of
life, and with the whirling dance, and
now, in behalf of the undersigned gentle
men, propose that the ladies of the Sewing
Circle celebrate the natal day of that great
and good man by giving bread to the poor,
andwe hereby place at your disposal five
hundred loaves of bread for the above
named object.
The address was signed by j. Wesley
Cephas, Jas. Kennard, David More, Benz.
f. Gross, James Weems, sixteen other
gentlemen, and two ladies. The President
and other members of the circle responded,
and passed unanimous vote of thanks to
the gentlemen who had thus made them
the almoners of their bounty. They also
resolved to celebrate the birthday Of the
Father of his Country by meeting in the
basement of Bethel Church at 1 O'clock,
for the purpose of distributing the bread to
the poor" Accordingly, at that hour,
headed by their excellent President, Mrs.
Annetta Jordan, an army of our best la
dies met as per appointment by their last
resolution, and commenced the good work
in earnest reached the place at IL M,
and more than thirty hungry persons had
then been fed At five the work had been
finished, and nearly five hundred had their
wants supplied, not onl y with bread, but
other essentials necessary to keep soul and
body together.
Mr.. Editor, my position has made me ia
miliar with all conditions in life. | have
visited the mission in your city on the
Five Points, and the Bedford street Mission,
in order that might see the real condition |
and the worst forms of human nature, and |
| do not recollect to have ever seen so ma
ny poor, degraded persons at one time in
my life; and then the question with tre-
mendous force presented itself to my mind,
what will become of these persons if Mr..
Jacobs bill passes our Legislature2 What |
will become of them7 Where can they |
got What community needs them You
have enough in your city, and SO has Phil
adelphia. So will all cities and States say.
Yet they must be cared for, for they can
not, or do not, care for themselves; and,
o horrors it is revolving to entertain for
a moment the idea that one of them should
go into slavery. Tell me not that any hu-
man beings conditionis bettered byaccepting
the proposition to go into voluntary servi-
tude; yet there are statesmen who advo-
cate that idea. Better, infinitely better, to
accept the proposition of Mr.. Whipper, and
ego to Canada, Africa, Hayti, the West
Indies or to the Mountains of the Moon"