Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-03
Pittsburgh synod.
FRIDAY MoRH1Ha, I'd jun

ReI. DR.. Krauth, from Pennsylvania
Synod. s.Fis9 -
Rsf.J. Weddle, from Maryland Synod.
Rey. DR.. Martin, II. E. Church. 80
Rev. H. 8. White and Rev. VIM. LiVesy,
of National Freedman's Association.
Delegates to sister Synods presented
their REPORTS from which it appears that
opr relations with other Synods are of the
most frateruai character. ---
The committee to prepare an address on
FThe Pastoral Relsdoni" reported, and
their report was msde the oFdeFot bnsiA
ness for Saturday morning.
On motion, the Rev. d. s. White was
invited to present the claims of the INA
tional Freedman's Association" of which
he is the agent.
Rev. White remarked: Help was needed
for the Freedmen. Nothing belonged TO
use cattle or tools, blood would be
shed. No great assistance was needed l.
Astonishing how soon they made Cross,
aud bow quickly flock of chickens gath.
cred about their cabin door. Many of them
were BhreWd in the management Of their
affsiEs-sOme having had the care of es.
tates during their masters absence in Eu-
rope.
The freedmen need aid. They call for
christian sympathy in their destitntfon.-
Shall they not have both? Amid our ma.
tionsl charities, which have received mil
lions of dollars, despite the mighty strain
made upon our resources by the most fear
fnl of modern ware, this one must not be
forgotten. The American people cannot
allow it, neither their self respect nor
their christianity will permitit.
The work in behalf of the freedmen
comprises two partments-ciyiliZatiO
and evangelizAtiou.
The former, which is the work of this
National Association, requires plows, cot
ton.gins, mills, clothing, superintend-
ents and schools. The work is but tenn.
porary work. Our principle is to give the
least POSSi6le help the circumstances demand.
Otherwise the effect would be bad. The
negro would wait TO be taken care of, be.
come entirely dependent upon the govern
meut. Our beneVolence is to furnish what
1t can, the government will provide law,
and then the negro must go to work and
help himself.
For the work of evaugelization, the
missionary societies of the different
must provide. The especial ma
chinery of each church here works for
itself. Sunday Schools must be estsb.
lished, the Gospel preached to the people,
and thus led to God.
And this people have strong claim
Brought here centuries ago by force, serv-
ing without pay, low, ignorant and de-
graded, they have just and holy claim
upon the American people.
But they deserve we'll for other reasons,
$50 900 of their number have been used
by the government in our present STRUGGLED
Thus have quotas been diminished; men
and bounties saved to the whites. But
1.-THE OF what they have thus saved the ma.
ton is all that is needed to accomplish our
labor in their behalf.
Then again, they have been the only true
and loyal friends of the Union in the
South. Ia the dense sWamps. in the
prison pens, in the conflict of battle, they
have aided our noble boys.
When Sherman was laundering through
Georgia, the 1900 officers at our prison
were intensely anxious to learn the news.
When liberal aud tempting offers could not
purchase paper, the negroes would SNUG.
gle them in, when to have been caught
would suspended the Culprit TO the nearest
limb. E-t22 o.
Lieut.. Wilson was struggled out in the
old cart which brought the ration of corn
cob meal. The negro driver, grave as a
deacon, never turning his eye or head to
the box on his cart, though discovery would
have hung him to the gate post when he
had entered the prison pen.
When the elect of the 6outh put 1000 of
us In the best buildings at Charleston, SO
that should the "SWamp Angel" or the
guns of the monitors send ball to iuiure
the houses, grist of Union officers would
be ground, the colored people were our
friends aud sympathiEers.
In like manner, their Information has
been most valuable to our gen6rAts-often
averting defeat and securing success.
These are claims which we dare not dis
regaEd-a debt of gratitude which dollars
cannot pay. sraff
Rev. ". A. PassaVant, ofPittsbnrgh de
sired to add a few words to what Rev. Mr.
White had spoken. 1t was his duty 10 be
at Fortress Monroe when the t'Sisters'' hal
been transferred from Washington to "Hy.
gia Hospital" after the battle of Big Beth
81. Gen. Butler had just declared them
contrabAnd OF war, and great numbers
hocked to Fortress Monroe He 6oU0h
the 6rSt dozen Of spellsrS for their use
They brought in their families aud HAVING
received something to eat At tie rear o.
the Hospital would gather at the front and
ask for "Sister Elizabeth" Hundreds Of
/ spoilers and testaments were distributed Ia
them, and the sisters devoted all their spare
time to the instruction of the old and
yOuug-all most anxious to learn to read
/ They have capacity for improvement
and can take care of themselves. Hun.
dreds have come to Pittsburg6, destitute q
Everything, yet there is the very least pro.
portion of them that is found in the hos.
Pital, the poor house or the jail. 10 1870
II Wade HamnfhnllN RO0k r,oH or,., -
Stewart was at Chambersburg, be has
picked up the trade of cObbltug, and in the
last twelve months. has laid up over his
expenses, more than $500 in UGited States
bonds.
The condition Of the negro is not so bad
or degraded as the 'so.cSlled "poor. White
trash" Ofthe South. We have b1t TO stand
| by the negro now; give him the GOSPEL
and work, and he will work out what cod
designs. In his behalf.
i Synod then voted thanks to the gentle.
men who addressed them. referTed ,ho