Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-18
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The Dnrlkey i'm n Washington
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Considerable trouble has been occasioned
in the Congregational Church in Washing
ton City, which is presided over by Rev.
DIR. BoYNToN, because he refused to receive
into membership two young colored men,
who made application for it. The Rever-
end gentleman took the position that where
the colored people have church organiza-
tions and schools of their own people,
there they should attend, and not "bury
themselves in living grave-an unheeded
little company in the masses of the
Whites.''
Tais sensible position; but it is not sat
isfactory to the church, and, consequently,
the church is divided into a majority and
minority party on the subject-the majori-
ity siding with the pastor. This matter
has attracted the attention of the Nep
York Independent, which is considerably
indignant that there should be any distinc-
tion between Whites and Blacks in churches
and schools, and processes to believe,
and it certainly must be great stretch OF
the Imagination to so believe, that s'colored
and white churches and schools are among
the bitter fruits of slavery and caste, and
no whit less absurd and offensive in the
sight of God than they would be if founded
upon distinctions of hight, or age, or prop
erty, or social position.'
The White people may as well, first as
last, make up their minds to this, that the
Radicals will not rest satisfied until every
distinction, politically, socially and relig-
iously, is abolished between the Whites
and Blacks. Every concession makes them
only more arrogant and exacting in their
demands. 600
Republican Government I'm Mis-
souri,.
The sort of Republican Government the
Radicals desire to establish throughout the
South, is thus shown by "MAcK," in his
correspondence to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial. in which he gives the following ac-
count of Republican Government in Mis-
souri,:
"They have Republican form of Gov
ernment in Missouri, and have it with a
vengeance. l heard something about it
the other day which can not refrain from
publishing by way of illustration. Clay
county, Missouri, had voting population
of 500 before the war. A full regiment of
these entered the Federal service and went
through the entire struggle, and what was
left of them came home at the close of it.
There are now about three thousand voters
in the county. At the last election two
hundred and fifty were allowed to exercise
the right of suffrage, under the test oath
and registry laws. The rest, two thou
sand seven hundred and fifty, were
excluded as 'rebels, though many of them
had been all through the, war on the Union
side. And the best of the joke is that the
individual who sat in Judgment upon the
loyalty OF others, and excluded the two
thousand seven hundred aud fifty as dis
loyal, was himself violent secessionist at
the outbreak of the war. He is now, how
ever, an earnest Radical. Now these are
figures that won't lie. Ny authority ii
Frank Blair. And this is only specimen
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$50 all who want to bask in the sunshine
of Republican form OF government
which is such in the literal sense that non,
but Republicans are allowed to participate
in it-had better emigrate to Missouri. IT.
no wonder they jelected Drake to the Sen
ate out there, but it is little astonishing
that they didn't do even rworse-if tina
were possible" 5el- 81 s7