Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-11-01

L dSlOI VI SCCOllll ptlSl SuulCu Vi X,
Va;
j. MADISON YOUNG,
Pastor of the Bank-street Baptist Church,
REV. j. E. BRICKHoUsE,
Pastor of st. Luke A u. NJ. P. Church,
W. D. Cook,
Pastor st. Johns A. NJ. E. Church, Norfolk,
Va;
HI BARco,
Pastor of First Baptist and Grove Baptist
Churches, Churchland, Va;
w. III. HUNTER, d. D.,
Pastor North-street A. NJ. E. Church, Ports
''o"'n' x 4. WELLS,
Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rich
mond, Va.@
Pastor Moore-street Baptist Church, Rich
H'o"0' G GEORGE JrnERsos#
Pastor A. NJ. E. Church, Richmond, Va:
JAMES II. HOLMES,
Pastor First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va;
j. A. TAYLOR,
Pastor Fifth Baptist Church, Richmond, Va;
L. IL. SHORTS,
Pastor Second Baptist Church, Hampton, Va;
u. b. SMITH,
Pastor A. NJ. E. Chnrch, Hampton;
Ii. ?. WEEDEN,
Pastor Third Baptist Church, Hampton;
e. BOLDEN,*
Pastor A. NJ. E. Church. Smithfeld, Va;
G. II. PAYNE,
Pastor of Bute-street Baptist Church, Norfolk,
H. W. DICKERsoN,
Pastor Third Baptist Church, Petersburg, Va.
[Those marked thus have since publicly
denied the genuineness Of their signatures,
and declared that they never signed the adj
dress-leaving twenty instead of twenty
three.]
So it appears that in making the issue
charged, the Democrats were not so far
wrong. "Our people" are to be rallied by
these colored clergymen to the support of
the ticket put up by the Malone faction. 1t
has, too, rather the appearance that the
colored clergy whose names are attached to
this letter, are themselves raising the CIV
of ''Nigger," without waiting for the
Democrats to do it. But the twenty col
ored preachers who have issued this Malone
circular will be surprised to find themselves
sized up by many intelligent colored men of
the State. There are plenty of colored
men-many of them in and around Staun-
ton-Who are the superiors of these politi-
cal preachers in intelligence, and in a clear
apprehension of the entirely separate
duties of the church and the political party,
and who will not tolerate dictation from
ignorant ministers who are used by a
political schemer to do for him the work of
ward FOUNDERS. They believe with the Rev.
John Jasper of the Baptist church of
Richmond, who in giving his opinion of
the Twenty Three" circular, which, by
the bye, Malone knew better than to have
presented to him, said:
My mission here on earth is to preach the
gospel truth, and l have no time to be going
to and fro through this land making speeches
and mixing up with politics. 1 am irving to
serve God and teachthe Scriptures. = X I
don't have anything to do with politics and
from that you can judge if l would have add
ed my name to the list. No, sir. The duty
of a minister of the Gospel is to serve the
Lord God on high and obey His commandment
to preach the Gospel in order to save SOULS
And good many Of the intelligent color
ed men in this vicinity have opinions SINH
lar to those Of Rev. e. A. Marshall color
ed minister of Christiansburg, Montgome-
~ county, to whom the '.Twenty-T Three,
circular letter was sent for signature. He
returned it unsigned, with this letter.
CHRIsTIANsBURG, VA, Oct. 10, 1889.
Geo Jamerson, R5chm0nd, Va:
Dear Sir and Bro.-Your signature is be-
fore me on a sheet appealing to me to work
for Malone. believe that L am Christian.
Hence l see no earthly grounds for me to sup
port party pledged to the liquor traffic and
man you can't prove Cat least l don't think
you CAM has been to church dozen times in
the last ten years, and a gambler-you might
say an infidel. Do you expect to go to heaven
supporting such ticket and claim you are
doing a Christian work The most of the
names fo the paper) seem to be Baptists-I
suppose jug B0pttsts. | am a Prohibitionist,
and how dare you Or any other minister be
anything else?
The Religious Herald of Richmond, the
famous Baptist organ, always noted for it's
active interest in and consideration for the
colored race, says Of this novel clerical
movement
1.-The signers of the letter know that their
people are not only treated justly, but kindly
They know that in all their educational and
religious work they have received generous
support. Some of the very signers of this
race appeal preach in houses of worship cree
ted, in no inconsiderable part, by their white
their children attend excellent
schools, provided practically by the VIII ties
in a word they have about them innumerable
evidences of the friendship of the other race.
1t may not be amiss to repeat, in this connec-
ton, a quotation found also on our first page
from General Armstrong; staunch friend,
by the way, of the party in whose interests the
negro manifesto is issued-'Southern tax pay
ers are doing more than any others for the
negro by maintaining 10000 free col0red
schools at an annual cost of over So, 900, 900,
Of every 500 paid in Southern taxation S91 80
are paid by white people,
''The Religious Herald has no politics in
any party sense. We have been through many
years the friend of the colored people. We
have sought to foster kindly sentiment be-
tween the races. We have sympathized hearth |
ly with every Christian and philanthropic !
movement looking to the elevation of the |
negroes. We have tried to cheer the hearts o.