The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-01
A NEW CHURCH..
The Corner Stone OF the 4. VI. f. Church
Laid-An Eloquent Speech.

blue saS' IS. When they reached the cAnlch,
Master ci Ceremonies II. c. DeLainc -s-
cended the platform and stated that by IN
vitation the Odd Fellows would lay the COR
ner stone to the new editice being erected
| by the Trinity A. NJ Z. church. He then
introduced H. W. Williams, Of Columbia,
district deputy, who took charge OF the
cayel and proceeded with the work as laid
down by their ritual
Rev. ". l. Chapel, presiding elder Of the
district, introduced as ti.e orator of the day
Rev. J. E. Eayne, d. D.. of Charleston, who
at once proceeded to deliver well written
address. He took for his subject, "Ihe
Negro and what he has accomplished before
and since the war, and spoke IN substance
as follows:
DE-. HAYNES sFEEcH.
Gentlemen and ladies, brethren and
friends:-The pleasure it affords NE TO ad'
dress YOU to-day, can only be fully explain
ed by an Infinite Being. My appreciation
of this honor is so great, 1t will live beyond
the grave The thoughts that are called
forth by this occasion are many and full Ct
importance. BY them We are forced to walk
amid the ancient grandeur Of the descend
ants of Ham, consider their present success,
and what their probable attainments will be.
The laying of this corner stone to-day
eyinceta more than mere temporal prosper
itv on the part OF the Negro. 1t sets forth
bis great moral idea OF the true character OF
society: it reveals his real conception Of an
intelligent worship OF the supreme Bong:
it points to a perspicuous knowledge OF that
religion founded by the Lord Jesus Christ,
for the purpose Of bringing about perfect
salvation from sin and eternal >teath, to
every one that believeth; it teaches l...,t The
Negro has an intelligent object il view, and
that he will pursue it lntelligently to the
end, cost what it Will or may.
The Negro is commonly regarded as the
descendant of Ham. His complexion hair,
and features have gwen him an unpleasant
standing with his brother in white, eSpeci-
ally in this country This is evincel by the
opposition he meets in both church and
State, aa6 again IN the business and social
world. If the Negro and his true history
were better known and understood by more
of our brothers in white, the prejudice
anainst him because Of his black complex
! ion, woody bair, and irregular features,
would decrease proportonately. There are
| comparatively few white men who know any
more of the Negro than that he is :: good
natured sort of fellow, 4 being that will
make q good or useful slave. They don t
seen. to know that the Negro once ruled the
ancient world for many generations, that lie
has left monuments IN Africa and elsewhere,
| that have excited the admiration and wonder
| of the civilized world in every successive
generation: The ruins Of these monulnent-
al structures are as much q curiosity to-day
rs thew were thousand or fifteen
hundred wears ago. This fact is fully at
tested when we read lIcrodotus, Strabo, and
Ephorus, who have spoken Of the Ethiopi-
ans and their grandeur. Ii the story con-
cerning the existence OF the Atlantis contl-
nent be true, it should be remembered that
| its great inhabitants were the descendants
of Ham, as we are told by Plato who got his
| information from Scion.
| In the second place, we will consider what
| the negro accomplished before the late war
of the rebellion, or from 1919 to 1850. Ev-
ery one of the thirteen original States and
many others date their first agricultural
success aud succeeding wealth to Negro Ia
Dor. Negro slavery has been the first step
toward American wealth and independence,
rand it has changed great forests into mag
nihcent productive fields. Millions OF acres
of swamp lands have been converted into
sugar cane, corn, and rice fields by MIN.
And from these fields billions Of money
! have been made, which has built up the
whole country, and given 1t q start III busi-
ness prosperity that Is withouta i rval any
where on this globe. From this great pros
perity a mighty government has sprunS up,
whose power and influence Is dreaded on
every side. Thus the American people owe
the American Negroes 4 debt OF gratitude,
aside from everything else, that can never
be discharged or paid, and the Negroes know
it. When the nation shall have learned the
true end OF justics, it viii then appreciate
| fully the inestimable services the negroes
have rendered it for 246 years without COM
pensation or reward At the laying Of this
| corner stone to-day, this thought occurs very
vividly to them; how different are the scenes
of to-day from 27l years ago on the James
River, when 20 Africans We're sold into per-
petual slavery, iii the month OF August, by
the officers of Dutch man-ot-war.
The introduction OF Negro slavery in this
country terminated the existence Of white
slaves in Virginia. Bancroft says, 'Wh:te
servants" became "a usual article of traffic
They were sold in England to be transport
| ed, and in Virginia were resold to the high
est bidder; like Negroes, they We're 70 be
purchased on shipboard, rs men buy horses
at fair" We thank God for the relnarla-
bic changes in both cases. That is to say, |
rejoice to see the day in this country when
both white and black are free. While slavery
existed in the several States, the nation, like
partly starved giant under an appalling
cloud, manifested signs OF paralysis, which
| left it as 1t We're in the awful tEroeS OF
death; and smarting under the oft repeated
Stings of the deep reiuorscS OF 1 reltntiesS
| conscience, it eked ont IN existence which
reelected 10 glory, but unmeasured disgrace
upon the detected ethics OF It's government,
until the enlan cipation of the slaves. 1t may
seem 4 little strange, but it Is true that the
natural wealth OF this country WAS never
! fully investigated and so extensively IeVel-
oped until human slavery was abolished
| This having been accomplished, the far of
West with It's hills OF gold and valleys OF
silver, fields OF corn, and planes Of wheat,
wvre connected with the trading North, the
manufacturing East, AID the promising
''New South, by bands of steel and lar
messed horses of fire, whose sharp and
shrill notes give unmistakabie signs oi civl-
izltion and progress. When We remember
steel against the approach Of their untlrlrg
! foes, and how like rock their children are
standing stirless amid the viciss!tudes OF
American caste prejudices, the fires of buoy
ant hope rekindles while the race prepares
for magnificent and prosperous future.
The magnitude OF this question only APP
pears in its incandesccIt light rs You con-
template the emancipation Of the slaves al!d
It's benefits to eX-slavc holders Think OF
the terrible anxiety it has relieved the tor-
mer masters They never felt perfectly Sc
cured from Negro insUrrcction. Indeed,
they could not, for it is fearful risk to rul.,
in attempting TO hold men in bondage. SI;l-
very OF any kind is the great reservoir oi
mischief OF whatever degree, and the great
incubator of internal lnachination, the
world over. Enslavcd men are liable TO
raise al inSurrcction 1t any moment regard
! ct }ha II rl.