The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-01
DIR. FULTON's CRUSADE.
The Brooklyn Divine's Philippics
Against Catholicism.

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Against Catholicism.
| There was a large audience at the First
| African Baptist church yesterday after
noon to hear the lecture of Rev. Justin D.
Fulton of Brooklyn, the white crusader
against the Roman Catholic church, who is
on lecture tour among the negroes Of the
south. His lecture was on 'Romanism and
the Negro" and was based on the 9TH and
Sth verses of the sd chapter of Exodus.
| Dr. Fulton described the sufferings of the
Iaraelites, and what God had done for them,
and how they repaid it with idolatry, but
| God continued to bear with their ingrati-
| tude wickedneSS and stupidity, because
| they were his children, and he had done the
same, the speaker said, with the negro.
! God was behind the emancipation procla-
nation, and Abraham Lincoln had
| promised on his knees to God that if he
| gave him a victory. he would free the
slaves. He did 80, and when Louis Napo-
| leon heard of it, he tore up letter recog-
nizing the southern confederacy, saying
that France would never oppose freedom.
Prayer to God, the speaker said, would do
more for the alienation of the sorrows and
complaints Of the negro than Benjamin Har-
rison, the Republican party or the white
| man of the north or south. "You can't
fight the south" said the lecturer. "a
change in your situation must come from
God"
The speaker was extreme in his illusions
to the Roman Catholic religion. The Cath
Ollie church, he charged, favored slavery
and did nothing to bring the slaves out of
bondage And will the negro, he asked,
go TO a church whose pope recognized the
southern confederacy, and whose cardinals,
bishops and priests approved of slavery,
ard say as the IsraeliCes did: "These be
the gods which have brought us out of
bondagep
The tLoman church, the speaker said,
does not want the negro to educate or en-
noble, but to keep him in Indebtedness, ig-
norance and poverty, and to subordinate
him to tyranny. There was sensation
among bis hearers when he said Rome
purposes to enslave the negro. 1t proposes
to break up the public schools and educate
the children in the uarochial schools to
make them Catholics and not American
citizens. 1t purposes to keep the negro
poor, ignorant and intmidated, and then
you have slavery whether tile whip is in
the hands of a southern man or a yankee.
The speaker ascribed the defeat of the
Blair bill to Roman Catholic influsnce, and
be warned the negro Of the folly of an
exodus from the south. The church, he
said, inspired plan to bring foreigners and
Catholics in the south to drive out the
negro. He claimed to have seen a letter
ing circulated among the negroes, saying
that the Catholic church has always been in
favor of freedom. There never was a
greater untruth," said the speaker. He
quoted from what he claimed was a confess
81 N Of Patrick Ford that there ought to be
p, 100000 Catholics in the north, by natural
mere Sc, annexatl n and i'm ulgratlon,
when there are but 100000 loss of 49,
Goa, coo, whic h attributes to the free in
situations of public learning in this country
! closing his remarks, the speaker said,
The eiecti, n Of Beaj ami Harrison aud the
admission of two republican states show
that God Almighty ha not LrOken his
promises with his people" and if the speak
er's advice is taken President Harrison will
have dig southern mail hereafter, as Rev.
Fulton advised his leaders to "WIito to
benjamin Harrison. not complainingly, but
.oy.nSly anu i'll kindness, telling him what
you want and pray to God that President
Harrison may aid and comfort you"
Last night DR.. Fulton lectured ut the
Second African Baptist church, in Greene
square, on nunnerie', taking as his text
jeremiah xvi, H. The lecture was in the
Sunday school room in the basement of the
church, which was crowded, and there was
Lardly standing room IN the vestlbule,
while many white persons stood outside
and heard tho lecture, a1d there was a
sprlnklIrg Of white faces in the audience.
The speaker went over much Of the
ground covered 4 his lecture in the after
noon, which seemed to fl in as we'll on one
subject aS the other he was very severe
on the priesthood. He advocated the re-
peal of all laws giving any part CT the
money raised ry taxation to the support Of
rarochlal schools. He charged taat Roman
Catholics control all of he departments a
Washington, which he denominated the lap
of Rome
From here the lecturer COOS to Atlanta
and after lecturing in the colored churches
there he will go to Washington, and month
hence be says he will go to Rome to write a
book on Romanism in the ancient city.