Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-17
:. .HUNNIcUTT- man was brought here,

- HUNNICUTT.- man was brought here,
preached and lectured in the colored peoples
churches, and obtained considerable money
Us "a friend Of the African race. Before the
war, he was the editor of weekly paper, in
Fredericksburg, called the Christian Banner
OF this paper. 4 colored man in I'redercks-
burg, has kept file, and he furnishes The
Fredericksburg Herald with extracts, which
shows what the man, to whom the co!ored
people have been listening, and helping, and
standing by, and paying money 70, thought
and said OF them, and their churches, when
We had no shat to hand round,'' and they no
money to bestow, nor Offices to vote for We
quote from the communicate 10 the Freder-
cksburg Herald ...... ....
Here, Mr. Editor, is what Mr.. Hunnicutt
said of my coored brethren in Virginia. in bis
newspaper, the Banner" published March
g 1854:
Owe are decidedly opposed TO any and all
African Churches, south of Mason and Dixon :
line Lin the present state 0! things, and at
this particular crisis, we think it exceedingly
impolitic in the Southern people to allow such
organizations to egist in our midst The time
for such unhalloEed assemblages ~ not yet.
Nor is Virginia the place OF rendezvous for
such dangerously, mischievous, ungodly mas
ses Of crude mind and matter TO congregate,
to concoct and execute their neiarions schemes
Of religious villainies. y
Again in the same issue of his paper, he
said, speaking of the colorcd people OF the
State and Of the South generally
They are ignorant and superslltous {"
proverb Depravity, ignorance, and Superstl-
ton orr dangerous compound, and such 4
compound is the black population OF Virginia.
And again, speaking OF the contemplated
plan of establishing coloFed church IN Fred
elicksburg, he says:
AN African Church IN Frederick burg
Who is to take the Episcopate charge Of this
African Church Sit its ecclesiastical organiza-
ton? An African, perhaps. Then We are to
have an African c. rical fraternity imposed
upon rs. African Parsons strutting up and
down cur streets wearing black kid gloves,
glossy boots, beavers covering Tor their empty
skulls, velvet cloaka thrown loosely over their
delicate SHOULDERS after the pa1sonlt order,
waving care assly in their hands ivory headed
canes and sporting with their golden watch
guards These clerical knavea must be hand
someIy paid for their services; they must li7e
the rn!,e1, patGpcled, African clerical lords
of the land, having the care Of undylng souls
com ni;ted to their trust Hush says one,
we are not going to have coored preacher.
Who, then, are you going to have? why,
come clergyman Of Anglo Saxon blood OF
course + Very well, in either case the preach,
er must be paid, if the widows and orphans
are starved to death in order to accomplish 1t.
Where ) the money 10 come from TO pay Tor
the ministerial services in the African Church!
Never do you mind about that; wr II sec to
it. Yes, the public will he taxed to ralse
funds to support The Fredericksburg African
Church, and The mo7~S op&uaM Of lcVying
thi, tax, We leave our readers to divine. We
honestly believe that IL decenuy conducted
theatre in the town of Fredericksburg would
he Il cause oil less magnitude to the community
generally. than an African Church, unless it
we're conducted On proper princp pies.
WAsIIINGToN ITEMS The 10Th instant
being the anniversary Of the order Of Odd Eel
lows in The United Stales and the day act
apart hy the Grand Sire under II resolution Of
the Grand Lodge Of the United States az
day OF thanksgiving, the order will duly observe
the day in Washington and great preparations
have been made for It's proper observance. -
The arrangements are now completed. There
will le large procession In The second d
vision will march, Visiting Lodges l'otoluac
and Sarcpta, Of Alexandria, and Marley EN-
campmcnt, Of Alexandria.
The oil and paint store Of Mr.. &. :. Whittlc
4ey, seventh street near ID. caught fire last
night, and was damaged to the amount Of up
wards OF $1,000.
Gen Micher has large force Of laborcra
and PAYERS employed in repairing portions Of
Al,