The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-12
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONTENTION.
Important and Interesting Proceedings.
THIRD DAY.

Important and Interesting Proceedings
The convention met as d .ual on Satu rday
morning.
Rev. DR.. Fuller, OF Baltimore, from the
| Special Committee on Missions, to whom was
referred the report of said committee so taI
as it relates to the colored people, submitted
| his report upon the report, which was received
and taken up.
The report is embodied in the following re-
Resolued, That God has directly committed
to tie Bapti ,ts of the South the high and ga
| cred duty Of giving pure Gospel and an en-
| llghtsned colored ministry to our brethren
| and fellow-citzens of African descent now l.v-
Resoloed, That new department Of the
Mission Board be created which shall be styled
the '.Freedmen's Board Department" which
shall adopt such measures for the religious
education of the colored people iHeDur midst,
as the exigencies of the case may require.
Rev. DR.. Fuller, on submitting the report,
remarked that the South had yet q power by
which she could rise to o position OF hlgner
Importance than any she had ever occupied;
that power was her spindles. Napoleon once
said that 1t was not the armies OF England that
had conquered him, hut her spindles. SO might
the South by her spindles rise to great lmpor-
tance and, power. He referred to the very pro-
titable investments in factories made IN Angus
ia, Ga, and in Mississippi. Some OF these fac
tories we're paying twenty-five per cent. on
the capital invested. The Doctor said he
intended to clear his conscience. The
sable prejudices In the South had not
been extingushed. 1t had been over
come, he thought, to greater extent in
Georgia and South Carolina than Ill some
of the border States. Before the colored
man could occupy the place for which
the Saviour designed him, we must be made
to feel that in Christ Jesus there Is neither
male nor female, Jew nor GENTLE, African nor
American. The colored churches must be ad-
mitted to represe ltation in Baptist Associa-
tions. In Maryland this was already the case,
though not the case in Virgins; and ln the as
sociatlons of Maryland some OF the very best
speeches were sometimes made by coored
preachers. These colored brethren bad sense
OF what Is proper, and when they entered the
ASSOCIATION would take their places together,
and not attempt social equality, which he said
was thing impossible. Would not the Bur-
man, il he we're here, be admitted into the as
sociations2 Why then should the African, who
is scarcely q. hue darker, be excluded? Not
long since in Baltimore he admitted Bur man
into hrs pulpit, and Soma thought it was col
ored man with q turoan on his mead. Inc
carpet-bagger Baal having got what he came
for, was asleep, or on his journey to Congress,
and now wss the time for Southern Christians
to work for the spiritual welfare OF the colored
people.
Rev. DR.. Poindexter, Of Virginia, replied to
the remarks Of DR.. Fuller. he might be IN
error, and If he were, he should be glad TO get
out Of it, but as social equality was thing I'M
possible, it would operate as bar to the ad-
mission of colored ministers into the associa-
tons. The idea of admitting them into the
associations as delega es involved the idea OF
social equality. The Bible never intended,
when it said hat We are all one in Christ, to
abolish soolal distinctions De- P. did not re,
gret that the discussion had arisen, as 1t would
give an opportunity tor full discussion of the
subject. He thought that there was nothing
that so protected the colored man, and gave
him such great opportunity for elevation, as
the bars existing to their social equality with
the white man. IT, you would admit them as
representatives in associations, you would have
tables, ard lay them upon your beds.
Rev. Jesse 81. Campbell, OF Georgia. very
heartily endorsed the sentiments OF the broth
or who had Just spoken. When we're we ever
to be- done with discussions about the coiored
man? The report recommended that de-
partment be opened In the Domestic MISSION
Board for the theological educstlon OF colored
ministers; the Domestic Mission Board was in
debt already and if that was attempted the
board would, in year, be more IN debt than 1t
now is. He had been preacher for forty-si1
years. and during that time had preached
mnch to the oolored people, and bapuzed, per-
hsps, thousands Of them, but he was not dis.
posed, and never expected to be disposed, to
be on terms Of social equality with them. Some
OF his own color might have such disposition,
and it might be we'll enough for them that they
had 1t; il was matter OF taste, but he did not
believe that any of his posterity would ever
have it. BE did q, It believe that God ever IN.
tended such equ.ity. He was against the
Of the report.
God for the resolutions contained in the report,
but did not believe tl.at they went far enough
to meet the exigencies Of the case. II was i'm
possible for our board, il all the funds in it's
treasury were directed 10 that end, to supply
the wants Of the colored people in Louisiana.
He favored the plan OF taking aid hom the
Northern Missionary Board, on conoltlon mat
the ministers preaching to the coiored people people
Board, and report to that body.
Rev. DIR. Williams, OF Maryland, thought that
there had already been debate enough, and op,,
posed the report on the ground that it involved
too much machinery, having learned that the
more machinery the greater the loss OF power.
He therefore W ould offer the following resolu-
ton as substitute to the report.
Resolued. That we recommend to the Dis
trict and State Associations to pay special at-
tentiou to the religious instruction and spirit
ual interest OF the colored people in their
midst.
The original report was then taken up BY
Much discussion arose upon
amendments proposed. The word freedmen"
was, on motion OF DR.. Broadus, OF Virginia,
stricken from the report, I'd the words "col-
ored people" inserted.
Rev. DR.. Burrows, Of Virginia, moved to
strike from the report the sentence which de-
clares that designing men have crept IN among
the colored people who preach Christ not OF
sincerity, but for filthy lucre AMI for their own
political ambition"
DIR. Broadus offered to amend 30 that the par
agrapb shall read as follows: Preachers they
will have; and we who know these people can
better supply the teaching they need than
those who have never lived among them.
The amendment was lost, and the motion
to strike out was also lost.
The report made on the recommitment was
then read as follows:
Resoloed, That God has directly committed
to the Baptlsts at the North the high and ga
cred duty of giving pure gospel aud an en-
Iiehtened colored minlsty to our brethren and
feilow-citizens OF African descent now living
among us.
Rev. DIR. Jones m wed to amend the above
resolution by striking from it the words ''our
brethren and fellow-citizens OF African des-
cent," and substituting the words "the color
ed population" Ihe amendment was adopted.
Rev. - Shackeford moved to lay the
whole subject on the table. Lost.
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