The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-28


self experienced some of the prejudice ex-
isting at the North against the people at the
South. Before the war he had been pastor
of Il church in Philadelphia. Since that
time he had visited that church when an
other was its pastor, and he took his seat
in pew, scarcely noticed by the people,
and not at all by the pastor. Subsequently
he had spent some days ut n watering-place
with that same pastor, and one of his
deacons, 4 man whom he had baptized,
and he was not recognized by either of
them. And now; said he, am going to
return good for evil; and show some of that
| high Christian inagiiaflirhity Of which Bro
ther Simmons spoke, for he Is the man L
allude to. "Brother Simmons, will you
! preach for me next Sunday morning?"
| Mr.. Simmons promptly replied that it
would give him great pleasure to do so.
! But, said he, do you say that you spent 4
week with me at watering-place without
being recognized? We're we in the same
| hotel! Were we at the same table? If
Brother Burrows says that thus met him,
and refused to be introduced to him, nc Is
mistaken.
DR.. Burrows remarked in reply, that he
did not state that the brother refused to be
introduced to him, but that the fact was
he was not recognized by him.
But, he continued, prejudice. apart from
color, Is not the point. | affirm that there
| is us mitch fratcrnal feeling towards their
coored brethren among the Baptists at the
South as there is at the North. The ten
dency of the remarks of Brother Post and
others is to ALLEVIATE the colored people from
the whites, and to widen the difference
already existing. / love to preach for them,
and believe they love to hear me preach;
and these colored brethren know that |
cannot ask them to preach for me. speak
for My brethren throughout the State when
| ! say that we are willing 10 do all that lies in
our power for the colored pcople-morally
and spiritually. TO have you preach for
me would cause more trouble than the
whole thing would be worth.
In everything that tends to their moral
and spiritual elevation we will unite in
etlecting it. 1t is unkind and unchristian
thus to attempt to sow dissensons between
the races when We all have to live together
as we do now. The time for ME to preach
this doctrine to my people has not yet come.
The next Sunday after one of your minis
ters is asked to preach in one Of the princi-
pal churches in Boston lie shall preach in
my pulpit.
Mr.. Post said that some OF their people
had been compelled to leave their pulpits
because they preached the manhood Of man.
He bore testimony to the fact that the peo-
!
against color as the people Of the North
had. He freely admitted 1t, What he want
ed WAS for the ministers Of the Sotith to come
out and say to the people that caste is 1rrong,
that in Christ we arc all one.
DR.. Burrows, reSuming, said that the
tendency of the remarks made..on yesterday
would leave the coored people to think that
the people ofthe North were better friends
of the colored people than are the people of
the South. and here, in the presence Of these
people, he cmphaticaly denied it. We are
just as much the. friends of tile colorcd
people Us they are, and you will get
into ou1' pulpits, into our houses, and sleep
in orr beds, just rs soon as you will in
theirs. The reverend gentleman stated, in
reply to a question, that he knew there
were exceptional cases, where the llsages
had been different, but he alluded to the
great masses of the people Of both sections ;
but as regards this whole matter of co0pera-
tion with the colorcd people, you have got
to work wtth. and not for, them.
The remarks Of DR.. Burrows were not
connected, but were mostly elected I'm reply
To intcrrog gatorics from members Of the So
cicty. We have, however, to save space,
condensed and connected them as we'll as
we could
4 After prayer by DR.. Mikels, of New York
the Society adjourned to hall-past 3 O'Clock
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Society met ut the appointed time
The pending Sttbjcct, that of Home Mis-
sions, was, on motion, suspended to hear
the
TREASURER's REPORT,
which showed that the cash receipts
amounted to Sit 7,222.j4, and balance on
hand of SGlS.G2, having expended during
the year G.G03.SS.
THE COMMITTEE on CoRktsroHDENcE
then made report, giving in detail the num-
Der Of letters received, stating that they
contain the warmest expressions of Sympa-
thy with the Society and its principles.
The Committee OH Foreign Missions, to
whom the report was recommltted this
morning, made Il report differing from their
former report only in 80 far rs the rcSolll-
ton is concerned. That reported this after
noon states "that whenever our brethren
of the Consolidated Anlcricaii Baptist Mis-
si0nary Convention shall find Il man or men
adaptcd to that field of labor, and shall make
such appointment, we pledge this Society to
furnish one-half the means of support"
This re6pcned the question Of co0pera-
ton with the Consolidated Convention and
the Home Mission Society; Which Was dis
cussed at considerable length 10y several
members, and adopted, with only one dis
scnting voice.
| TIE HOME MISSION REPORT
was then taken from the table, and was
still further discussed by ReyS. MeSSrS. VIII
lams, Satchell, Troy, Brisbane, DR.. Nikel>,
Laws, Perry, DR.. Brown, Stowcll, and
GLADDEN..
W. II. Williams, Jr., stated that the pco-
pie of the South do look with suspicion
upon the Home Mission Board. Schools
were established by the Board upon the free
principle ttaciirrs wrre paid by the Board,
and yet he had been informed they eHactcd
tuition of the parents of the pupils, and
they also required pay for books sent out
bv the Board. This had certainly been done
in Petersburg, and, for aught he knew, nj
other places. Some persons in the interest
of the Society had certainly imposed upon
the colorcd people Of the South
DR.. Mkels said there was room enough
in the South for all these Societies. There
should be no such feelings of alienation Il,
he had seen indicated. His people would
not give money to aid you If this state OF
things continued to exist. The remark that
the people had no confidence in the Home
Mission Board grated on his ears.
X. $. Laws stated that man claiming to
be an agent of the Home Mission society
had sold Bibles in his county ESSEX for
fifty cents apiece. He had, as the agent OF
the Free Mission Soricty, been giving them
away to those in need. If DR.. Simmon.
wants the name of the agent, he could fur
nish it, He staid while there with the big
gest rebel III the county, and went to poitl.
cal meetings to sell his books to the people
who were in attendance. He did not be-
lieye this was done by the authority of the
Board.
The speaker was here reminded that there
were several other agencies i'll the field, and
it might be that one of their men commit