Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-05-27
A "NeW Gospel. "

Methodist minister, and editor Of !
one of the church papers, has dis
covered the Gospel of Amalgama-
ton, or the duty of all white men
to marry black wives, and of ali
white women forthwith to get me-
gro husbands! He has brought
this new Gospel into the pulpit,
and thence into the papers, and
we find a report of it in the hide
pendent, and also in the Northwest.
ern Christian Advocate. The lat
ter paper says cit is specimen of
beautiful writing and most coura-
geous avowal."
Our readers will not expect US
to give them many specimens from
this extraordinary production
We can assure them Mr.. Haven
appears to be very serious about
his gospel, and also very learned
in all matters pertaining to love
and marriage. So rapturously docs
he paint the happiness of man
who is blessed with the possession
of a negro wife, that one really
hopes that he is not married him
self, and 30 is left free to crafty
his high imaginations.
He calls this prejudice which
prevents white men from marrying
black women, and gice eerSa, ga
leprosy." He adds:
cit dwells in our Churches, in
our souls, in our education, in So
ciety. 1t still makes US look at q
face with repulsion which is of the
very complexion of the mother of
ourLord-nay, of the Lord himself"
Our readers will pardon us for
copying such fearful trash, but
they ought, we think, to know
something of the nature of the stuff
which has come to be preached in
Evangelical pulpits on Sunday
He goes on to paint the triumph
of the new gospel
owe shall be attracted to this
hue because it is one of Gods crea-
lures, and a beautiful one too; be-
cause it is the favorite hue of the
human race; because, chiefly, we
have most wickedly loathed and
scorned it. He will have his re-
venge, and will yet compel US to
discern the loveliness of this most
abhorred virtue, and to become en-
amored of it.
"But this law rests on no mere
quif of the fancy, nor is it a re-
bound of vehement passion, as
wrongfully right as it had been
wrongfully wrong, 1t is the grand
undertone of all marriage. 1t is
the Creators mode of compelling
the race to overleap the narrow
boundaries of families and tribes,
into which blood, So-called, inva-
riably degenerates.
"'Not like with like, but like
with difference, is the law of mar
riage. The light complexioned
turns to the dark, and the dark to
the light, as day to night and
night to day. The tall seek the
short, and the short the tall (; the
small the large, and the large the
small. Opposite temperaments also
thus incline to each other. Bish-
op Morris says that he can select
husbands and their wives in a
large company by this law of like
and difference. Contrast whets
appetite. DR.. Holmes ten lovers
dangling in the silken moose on
the fatal trap of Cupid, being asked
the color of the eyes that caused
their ruin
Ten shadowy lips said heavenly blue,
And ten accused the darker hue
"The last five of these vic
tins were undoubtedly blue-eyed
SWANS, and the first of brown COM
plexion."
1t is really gratifying to know
that "Bishop" Morris is so high an
authority in matters of courtship.
He and DR.. Holmes are masters
from whom there is no appeal
And Judging from the Bishops
familiarity with the subject, and