The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-18
BITTER WORDS.
bI. FrLT0N'S SERMON At THE FIRST
AFRICAN CHURCH.
HyRLING OUT SOME EXTRA "a
CANT STA TENENTs.
THE IDEA THAT he Is SEEKING TO
pRoMULCArE.
Mailing E.ctlcs- statements Apons Ho-
,nauism aud the >earo-iie Winds Up
hi. Talk to tate Up Collection
eaiug Tor the south.

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Dr. Fulton is a piect OF news discussed
all over the country We give IT for what
il Is worth. calling attention TO The fact
that the collection was taken up at the
close of the reverend gentleman's re-
marks
The First African Baptist Church was
crowded Yesterday morning 10 its utter
most capacity to hear the Rev. Justin u.
Fulton, y d., lecture on "Romanisn'
and the Negro.
Or. Fulton opened his address by re-
lafinr The circumstances under which ne
was last in thc city, whicn was quite
number of wears ago. When 1t was De
cilcd in ST. Louis that an editor
Of any UNCONVENTIONAL paper must
be believer in slavery, ana as ne
was al hat time holding such nm once
be left ST. Louis penniless and came ana
preachef al the First Coiored Baptist
church i'm Richmond And he had come
"a A.. same church 90 do his utmost TO
snppres. the Roman element in the col
owed churches of Richmond. President
Lincoln opposed the Roman movement
IN capfure The negro and place them In
subiection. and 70 Wa. Romanism that
Slew BIN.
uE TALKS OF BONDAGE.
It's the purpose OF Rome In her late
GREAT movement to capture the negro
and lace them IN bondage, and keep
them in ignorance and subsection Inc
sandesi thought in his mind was that
there are 100000 Africans who know not
God
The speaker took up first for discus
sion fhe statement that the negro race
has mo- use for Romanism. II the negro
lsd not through an that great conflict
followed and rallied around the Stars
and the Stripes they would not have been
ire to-day told sherman that had II
not been fof the blacks in the war the
Northern army would not have been
able 20 get back home
Rome processes TO be friend 10 the
negro In the North now, and she was
AGAINST them during the war She claims
10 dav 10 be q philanthropist Beware
And i'm the CITY OF Richmond now they
mske The negro sleep in garrets, like the
Irish of the North The speaker then IN
detail explained the manner Of Roman
Catholic worship and went 40 far IS 20
boldly declare that their services are
nonsen.ical. and that there Is nothing
eleyaI ing in il That the whole was
movement of the Roman Catholics and
the South Their object was 10 keep
the negro in subsection, and TO De
whipped by the staff OF an old priest in
stead of Yankee
VERY BITTER WORDS
The Doctor then related an incident
OF a man who came 10 him the day be
lore and said 10 him, "Why are you
talking so about the Romanisls ex-
pect 10 iOin that church soon lie no.
icing that the man was under the in
iiuence OF drink. replied All right, go
ahead: the priest drunk al one end and
you the other, and suppose you can
run ii all right.
Il believe said the speaker in hge
years from now the man who stands
against komanism viii be honored.
Some years aye when that black cloud was
darkening our sky of liberty, Abraham
Lincoln prayed and all the people prayed
that God should free the negro. Why did
not Lee commence the fight earlier that
morning Of the battle of Gettysburg
Because Gods people had prayed that
the North should win, and He heard
their prayers and answered them by keep
Ing Lee from winning. Let Inc come
nearer than that
GOING INTO POLITICS.
Grover Cleveland had expected during
the inaugural 10 assist in the great pro-
cession iorrhe purpose Of raising jesuit
monument. And the people again pray
ed 10 Cod 10 prevent this, and what was
the consequence, The rain came in tor.
rents, and prevented the great move
men, God again had answered the
prayers OF his people
Or. Fulton then, In bitter charges,
criticised the actions of Leo NIL, and
pronounced the Pope of Rome a tyrant
who disclosed his cunning articles to en-.
slave the negro of the South whom God
had given freedom through the instru-
NE tality of the North.
Rome took sides with the Southern
COnfederacy during the late war, and had
II not been for Romanism the Southern
ConfeGerscy never would have been
formed Had IL not been for the assist
ance Of Roman Catholics the South
ern rebellion never would have been
raised
The largest Shareholder in the District
OF Columbia during the war WIS ko-
man Catholic by the aame of Young.
Mat il Romes motive in trying 10 get
negroes into their Church II is not to
blot out the color line. They tell You
they want to get the white and colored
children in their schools on the same
footing, but they want TO subjugate the
negro. At convention held by them
during the inaugural they reported that
il was their sole aim 10 enslaye the negro
race.
In 1852 the Romans first met in Buffalo
anu decided upon measures 10 get the
Chief Magistracy in their power, and IN
1855 they had President who favored
them and who placed Roman Catholics
in nearly all the posioifices and other
government offices, and had two Roman
Catholics IN his Cabinet Romanism
is opposed 10 education. When the
BlaiI bill was before Congress II was
violently opposed by The Jesdils, and
that kept II from passing the House
twice.
THINKS WELL or HARRIsON'
benjamin Harrison 10 htpuDIlcan
and Presbyterian, and in four years
Romanism viii 90 AUDIBLE signs OF
applause
The speaker then referred 10 great
riot which occurred in Albany while be
was pastor there. When on the night OF
the not he was, according TO his own
statement, trying 10 protect the negroes
against the whites, he announced
from Bis pulpit that if the
mob should attack the blacks
he would be found on the side OF the
blacks, and If they wanted 10 night their
pastor. light the negro, and several Of
them waited upon him and told him,
after that remark, 10 leave the Town II
he valued his life and he remarked TO
them that if they wanted TO tight, come
on, aud he and the blacks would show
them whether they were in purga,ory or
hell
lie here argued al great length that
color does not justify differences, and
closed by urging the negroes TO stand