Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-25
RADICAL PRESCRIPTION.

Rev. w. B. Scott, the colored editor of
the Maryville Republican, is in this city
endeavoring TO obtain sufficient encour-
agement and patronage to insure con-
ued success to his paper. We find in his
issue of Feb. IS q very proper rebuke to
the political intolerance of the commu-
nifty in which he lives. The following is
the article to which we refer.
REV. wM. II. MILLER, B. A.
We regret to announce the departure
of the above named gentleman from the
scene of his labors, as minister of the
colored people in Maryyille, to another
sphere. Mr.. Miller left on Thursday, for
his home in Versailles, Kentucky. He
came here under commission from the
Freedmen's Department of the Presbyte-
rian Committee on Home Missions of
New York, Of which DR.. Hatfield is the
leading spirit. He was well received at
first, and continued to be so byhis people,
until they were tempered with by those
whose party spirit discovered that Mr..
| Miller was member of the Pres5ytery
of the Presbyterian Church, South.
Some of the pretended friends of the
colored people in Maryville, both clerical,
lay, and profane, created an unwholesome
prejudice against him in his own congre-
CATION. This because he had generously
offered the use of his pulpit for the TEN.
porary use of the NJ. E. Church, South
to Rev. G. t. Gray, on the occasion OF
that gentleman's coming to fulfil his first
appointment in this place. These mer
insultingly disputed his right to allow s
minister of a Southern Methodist Church
to preach in his chapel.
| Mr.. Miller said in reply, that he camt
here to preach the Gospel of Jesus only
and would not raise political questions an(
discussions in the church, as these mel
insisted on his doing. He was firm in hi
right views, but it made him foes, a
such course will do to any man Wit
svows the same liberal ideas in this town
He was, as we know, even the subject o
vile threats to whip him, as had been don
to DR.. Knight in the same spirit. Wit
few honorable exceptions, the handful o
colored Presbyterians whom he sought t
benefit, gave him the cold shoulder in re
turn for the spirit of Christ which h
manifested; and while he had to pay 70
his board, and was also the means o
their having a building of their own, an
a splendid library for the Sunday School
yet they, under bad advisers, despised MI
Miller's consistency, because he refuse
to follow others in returning to the pcOI
beggarly elements of the world, at tn
usurped and impudent dictation of othe
people.
The Rev. w. II. Miller come here full
endorsed by the Faculty of the Lincol
= University, where he honorably graduated
But the ministers and officers of the Pres
byterian Church here almost ignored him
and in no way recognized him as a minis
ter of Jesus Christ, and of their oWl
faith and order as an agent commissions
by their own Board. Out Mr.. VIM. A
Walker has shown him kindness.) !
having been an unfortunate thing for hin
that the color of his skin, and ayowet
non-political sentiments, rendered him no
an object of either their christian sympa
thy or fraternal recognition, by some o
the religious Radicals of Maryville and it
suburbs, and their understrappers. Evel
minister of his own Church, at Knox
vile, is believed to have been prompte,
by jealousy to do his reputation harm
But we hold that Mr. Miller is abOv
reproach; he is a christian gentleman an,
sound scholar; but his ignoring the Nortl
and South questions in the gospel mad
him an object of dislike to vendors 0
SANDER ane retailers of malice and IN
godly sectional strife.
We hope the Reverend gentleman wi
find a more cOngenial spirit in his new
sphere, and we earnestly commend hin
as a man of sterling worth and SCUM,
views.