Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-21
NEGRO PAsToRsFoR WHITE CON-
GREGATIONS,

be radically" advocated, as justly fol-
lowing and conceded upon entire polit-
ical equality between the negroes and
the whites, we have considerable evil
deuce. No doubt, when it comes down
to absolute, practical communion in the
rast majority of northern communities,
there will be a popular reUOlting from
the i~udeceney. But up to actual &C
acknowledgement of martial rights as be-
tween the races, the ramfussicus Radi-
calls are likely TO have smooth sailing.
And this, principally, because the ma-
jority do not see the way and the end Of
the drifting"
To illustrate: A northern Methodist
conference, at its recent session, adopt
ed an appeal to the churches against
the spiri. of caste. The occasion of it
is stated TO be the rejection Of n colored
minister BY the church to which he was
assigned three years ago. The confer
euce appeal attributes no special blame
to the rejecting church, but says: "We
believe in this they erred, and that the
church, as we'll as the ~unconyerted COM
munity, would have responded to a
courageous conquering Of unchristian
prejudices. Yet we consider thatinthi
matter they were on a level with their
sister churches, and cannot be held to
have INDUCED in different sentiments,
or to have pursued a different course
from their brethren. He would as sure
" probably have been despised and re-
jected by every other church" The
conference thinks the time has come for
q "more broad and just course" and
appeals TO the churches to ''opeu their
hearts and their pulpits to the official
ministratiou Of men Of color They
say: "will you assure u presiding ell
ders that you are willing to accept breth-
rem Of this hue as your pastors? Minis
tiers Of talent, attachments and piety are
waiting the opening Of this door. Will
you respond to this request Of God,
spoken in your conscience, spoken by
His angel in the ear Of all his churches,
and invite them TO come it? So doing,
the Master who is without with them
will enter as never before into our tenn
| pies and hearts. You q declare your
detestatiou Of caste, and willingness as
a body of believers to act up to your
convictions, by ignoring color in your
membership and psstorship. You can
declare to your elder, through your
quarterly conference, your readiness to
receive brethren IS pastors irrespective
of complexion"
So is the millennium Of Theodore Til
ton'sprophecy to be in part inaugurated.
The religious sense of equality Of all
persons before God, is to be invoked in
one of the largest denominations, as de-
handing, by the holy argument it sug-
gests and POUNDS, the familiar incoming
and outgoing of o social equality, in the
form Of the hitherto separated AZ
ricau! The South may "progre's y
rapidly beyond this point.
You will observe, that the extreme
" Radical" argument, unmissakably
proceeds upon the assumption that the
negro is morally much better than the
white man. The conduct of the rebels,
and the contrast they have afforded, is
the ground for this assumption. In
very many cases-probsbly it will so
average-the Southern negro has shown
himself, during the war, the moral su-
perior Of the next door white rebel.
The white men in many Southern towns
are quite as ignorant and more degraded
than the negroes in the same place.
The negroes had to work while the
white man was idle. The actual work
iugmau is always more moral than the
lazy and indolent man. Now the South
ern negro will become equally shiftless
with the white-ss lazy as the white
was, and will fall into those deeps Of
degradation TO which his nature tends.
Coming into the possession Of political
rights, with demagogues bowling to him
and making him understand, at least,
the full measure Of the power conferred
upon him, he will soon demand his
rights" rs defined by the Rev. Mr..
Fuller, Richmond, in a recent speech to
tina. public "Ise nc use for any
white man who doesn't want me, or any
other colored man, to marry his dsugh-
ter"