The New York herald., 1876-03-14

at 500 year and ratons for men colOred and $40 and
ralons for women There IS no provisions at all ior
children And 10 escape tho oppression OF those rates
the c0ored people must emigrate rom the state lie
had them with their little packs departing 10 other
States to escape starvation, for with their families tney
could not live on these sums Indeed, ne mad khowl
some men working for ten cents day and had heard
OF others working Tor as little as SIX cents oay III
South Georgia this condition Of things exists more es-
peciay for the supply OF labor there greater THAN
the demand. The silent and social ostracism oil the
coored people and of white Northern people greater
than ever though the open efforts TO annoy are less
There is evident hope aud a steady though snehI
effort on the part OF the South reduce the coorcd
people state OF peOnage aud II the Methodist Epis
copa Church should withdraw its influence and It's
forces from that region those dark and bloody deeds OF
old would be repeated Nine years ago a white lady
teacher TO Granville, Ga and was refused adnis
the hotel 10 the home OF any white person IN
the place She has herocay maintained her position
but great the osracism practised there shc has
been visited by two Southern white persons only dur
ing those n nc years.
Episcopal Church South with the North, but they
refuse iraternzing until thor General Conference OF
their leaders show disposition to move IN that
direction And latter refuse because they say that
by the 'Pan OF Separation OF 1874 the Metho1ist
Episcopal Church has no right there and IS Simply res
passing on the territory of their brethren fhcrc IS
abundant work and room for both churches IN tho
South There fortyseven counties IN Georgia alone
where tho Methods. Episcopal Church have nelther
station nor a minister; and yet they have iorty-ivo
white and sixty-scven colorcd ministers in the Stale
They havo mixed churches OF white and colored
members except few places where there are not
enough OF either color TO sustain separate esaDllsh-
menis. Back OF the railroad centres they nave no
church building that exceeds IN average Vsue S-o"
The
coxYERkNcEs ALONG THE GULF COAST
consist chiefly OF colored ministers and members with
here and there few white. There three colored
conferences along the border AT the close the war
the Methodist Episcopal Church had 1000 church
members II had since added 300 900, OF which num-
bcr about 100 900 are and us 600 colored. The
border churches number 10000 members In the
Central Southern conferences they have 20 600 mcm-
bers about 35 600 of whom coored II, therefore,
the Methodist Episcopal Church gives up It's white
work IN the SOUTH or the same reasons ~ snouiu glve
Church South, which has been set of by the Methodst
Episcopal Church south has 90 600 members, put nus
means OF prosecuting It's own ordinary work III u
had one of its bishops would not have come North TO
solicit aid. Tho Methodist Episcopal Church South
Is no better able TO carry on the work
thus begun and by the Church North II the
latter withdraw the poor whites as well as the coored
people will lapse again into a sem.civized CONDITION.
The State CommssiO OF Education reports that no
has planted 1876 schools in Georgia. and recommends
the County commissioners not TO employ as teachers
any Northern persons or graduates oil the Atlanta
University and other Institutions sustained by the
Northern Church. because, as he states the lacuIy III
those institutions teach social equality by eating at tho
same tables with their colored pupils Ihose stato
schools nominally open only three months IN the
year, but really not more than one month Out OF a
population OF 5000 In the State OF Georga mere
are 46S 900 hterate persons The Baptists OF all
shades the most numerous In Georgia. but oil the
1872 600 of them 40 600 known as hard Shells VINO
are opposed 10 temperance ssions and 10 sunday
schools Hence the mountain districts OF Georgia are
full Of "crooked" whiskey stills The Methodist Eps,
copal Church South has 81, 600 members The Coored
Methodists OF the South, in union with the Methodist
Episcopal Church. have put 81, 500 900 into church
properly there This will be sacrificed II the Church
withdraws its protection and help The benevolent
societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church have spent
Sill 900 them since the war and received back
$40 GOO The Doctor descr bed the "hoy dances aud
The supposed fetsch worship OF the colorcd people in
the South, and declared that had been publicly stated
in the State Grangcrs' Assembly that members had
ogged their coored laborers and the facts had been
published in the Atlanta papers and never denied. The
Doctor therefore, made strong plea for the Methodist
Episcopal Church to stay in the South