Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-11-28


tinctions in the law Of the Church re.
garding mon. We 20 for perfect
equality before the law. The African
Methodist Episcopal Church must
come in as icll members or not at all.
"Now il is perfectly natural to ask
Butt and if-if a ntbro Bishop should
come to white Conference, what
thenf Why, then we hope the mem
bers of that Conference would be
Christians and gentlemen. II Bishop
Payne should come to Con.
ference where wcp.were, we should
expect to see him treated just as
Bishop Simpson would would be treat
ed If he should visit Bishop Payne's
Conference.
oSome of these matters were sug-
gestcd to Bishop Amcs and others
They all agree that we need only q
reasonable amount of sense and piety
to accomplish this work.
"a. Some men say, No colored man
shall ever preside over me as Bishop.
Very well, then by what right do
we claim the privilege of presiding
over colored meny Do our brethren
in India waste time over such puerill-
ties as theseY Are. not our Bishops
men of sense, and could we not safely
leave to them the matters Of detail in
reference to appointmentsy Forone,
we are opposed TO class legislation IN
Church or State. now and for ever.
Man arc men, and il is crime against
God and man TO attempt TO degraoe
any human being. But every sensible
man, whether black or white, knows
that he prefers certain associations
he prefers his own people. He ought
to do so it is right. 1t would be q
foul wrong not TO do so. What would
be- thought of Fred. Douglass if he
should not try to elevate his own peo
pie? The ministers of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church burn will
undying zeal for theirpeople. Suppose
we help themY If we propose to unit'
with them, must we send them all tC
white churches, where they do moi
want to 90, and insist on thrusting
ourselves on congregations of coloroC
people who do not desire usg Let Vi
have sense in these matters, and W.
shall get out from in among cobwebI
where we have been mystified.
"The Missouri and Arkansas Con
ference last spring, and the De
Moines Conference this fall, receives
colored men on trail without worC
of discussion or dissenting voice
They were taken as men, appointeda a
men and honored as men. Let us ever
where carry out this common-sens
and Christian-sensc view Of the case
This is the mountain in our way, a
DR.. Kevels and Bishop Campbell
know. This is the vital matter.
as. We are in favor giving colore'
Conferences equal representation i
the General Conference. They mus
have this, whether we unite or not
The next General Conference wi
doubtless strike out of the Disciplin
every condition that now relates I
these Conferences. They were organ
: lied rs an experiment and as Missio
!. Conferences they are a success, an
are not to be held in pupilage.
"What else would our brethren
? the African race desireg We kno'
nothing of their ideas beyond what W
have stated. There is among thei
i an extreme and wcll-founded Jealousy
lest they should be subjected to som
sort of unjust conditions in coming
/ us again. We do not blame them f
this. They cannot help it, and u
. facts of the past justify their suspi
q ions. Ten reaso nable men, five fro
. each Church, could settle this questic
A i'm an hour"