Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-25
THE NEGRO.
The Great Dsbats il the Baptist
Home hi sion dFY SGCisty
at Chicago.
Or. Burroughs and gF. TIChsnOr, Of
hemphis, Speak cut Freely
and Boldly.
Responses from Leading Northern
Baptists, ard from the Audi
sBcs-BF. TiChsH8F Van
quishsd By a Woman.

From the Chicago Times.l
The Home Mission Society re-as-
sembled according 10 adjournment,
/ and opened the afternoon session with
singing. Elder Knapp lead in prayer.
REPORT OF THE SOUTHERN DEPART
BCENT.
The report Of the southern depart
ment, as presented by tho executive
I board, was taken up and read.
DR.. Fulton, when he visited st.
Louis, felt bound 70 do so. comparing
himself to St. Paul when he went to
Jerusalem. He spoke at st. Louis,
saying worse things to the convention
than be had ever said before, and he
never saw men take anything better;
he had been sick all day after his
speech, and was nursed all afternoon
by an eX-C0nfederate chaplain. He
then proceeded to give an account Of
what he had seen and heard at the
4 South. There were many Bapti5ts in
the South who believed a negro to be
/ less than q man. The society should
not turn its back up0n the negroes Of
the South now.
1t must 90 on with the work. He
concluded by calling upon DR.. Backus
to pray to God that the questions Of
elevation might be settled.
DR.. Backus prayed most feTventiy.
REMARKS OF Mr.. CHAPLIN.
Rev. c. c. Chaplin, Of OWensboro,
XIV, was an eX-rebel, who came to
have q plain talk. We had been look
ing at each other through a distorted
medium. After praying with Fulton
he had forgotten that he came from
Boston. The speaker had been cra-
died in the lap of an African. When
the war closed, the cCl0red brethren
had been separated and set up for
themselves, under his advice. They
asked him to be their pastor, bat he
declined, because there was another
field. They had refused to study
under him because they did not want
TO study, not because he did not rec0g-
uiZe their manhood. Slavery had
served the purposes Of God, and He
put Ii aside, and amen, so mote it be.
The men Of the south could not ele-
vate the negro alone. The negro
would rather hear him talk than q
Northern man. The question was
bow to make them feel that they had
manhood in them. There was not q
cOrpOrai's guard in the South who did
not believe the negro was human.
The South was pecuniarily unable to
do the work Of Cultivating the negro,
though perfectly willing to do so,
and would Join hands with the North
in the work. The SOutherns did not
hate the NOrtherns, but did not wish
to enter into an organic connection
with the present society.
A VOICE FROM VIRGINIA.
Rev. DR.. Borroughs, Of Virginia,
was a Northern man by birth. snd
loved his Northern home; went South
at the age of twenty-five; had been
pastor of the First Church In Rich
mOnd for seventeen years. He had
been fully identified with his brethren
in the south, and never had any re-
pentance TO make to man or God for
the course he had pursued. He never
treated any man other than as q gen
tleman and brother. DR.. Fulton had /
gone South, and it was wonderful
what a Modifying effect a visit to the
South had on a Northern man. He
wished some of the Baptist editors
would 20 down there. He wanted
consultation. DR.. Fulton had been a
great deal kinder since his visit. The
feeling in the South in regard to this
branch of the society was, that the
abolition Of slavery was accepted in
good faith, and the re- establishment
would be impossible If left to q vote;
not a vote would be given tOr it. There
were erratic people at the South as
well as at the North. He believed it
was best for the white race. They did
not accept the ultra doctrines Of Dea-
con Gilbert on the sinfulness Of.
slavery per Sc. The man who owned
OF bought a slave was not to be classed
with thieves and robbers. At the
close Of the war there were four hum
dred thousand cOlOred B8ptists in the
South, and they were converted
through the Southern ministry, and
vet men south of Mason and DiXOn's
Line were regarded with distrUsU.
Was this work to be done now all by
the North? A voice, "HOU don't
let them read the Bible."l ] There
were some things done in the South
not done in the North, Heresy had
been sorted out, and there was not a
Unitarian or Universalist Church in
the South. Applause. I The priuci-
pies Of the Gospel had been firmly
planted in the hearts Of the negroes.
There was not even a cOlOred Camp
bell church in the South.
As to the union of the Northern and
Southern societies, il would come
about as fast as their hearts became
knitted together, and no sooner. He
doubted whether il was desirable to
have them in one organized body, as
Ii would be too large. They could
work together for the same ends just
as harmOniOusly. Perhaps II would
be better TO multiply the societies, all
to be one in hear, and purpose.
The Outrages in the South were not
so numerous as reported, and in many
cases they were not political in char
scter. He did not approve these
things. IL had been published in the
Northern papers that there was not a
parlOr in Richmond in which q copy
Of the portrait of j. Wilkes Booth was
not hung on the wall hanked by Lee
and Jackson. He had investigated
that matter, and found that there was
not a single COPY Of Wilkes Booth in
any parlOr in RiChmOu d This fact the
Northern papers had refused to pub
lish. tt had been said that DR.. Bur
rOUghs did not dare, one year after the
war, to say that Lincoln had been as
ssssiuated, when, in fact, he had
preached a sermon within a week
after the murder Of Lincoln, denounc-
ing the deed.
A STORM BREWING.
The people Of the North are too
credulOus. If the leading church in
Boston, Brother Simmons, would in
vite a colored preacher into his
church, he would follow suit in Rich
Dr. Cheney-There is q colored
preacher who visits the pulpit there
now.
Mr.. Buroughs-You mean Brother
Grimes2
Mr.. Cheney-Yes.
Mr. Burroughs Well, DR.. Fulton
told as that when, with MP. Crimes,
he had been mistaken for the negro.
There was no more evidence Of social
| equality ia Chicago than there was IN
l Richmond.
A Voice-You have not been here
| long enough to see ft.
Mr.. BurrOughs-There are some
! who have been here a long time and
1 nave not seen It, In conclusion DR..
| Burroughs disclaimed entertaining
any lllfeellng toward the men of the
! North, and said in regard ia the
schools for the education al The ne
! grOes, the Southerners would Do an
that they were able to do.
THE QUESTION FROM THE NEGRO
STANDPOINT.
Pew Mr. DeBaptist. of Chtcann