The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-02-25
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the South. They might. ia one sense, be
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versil;, this CITY.
The cause OF the commotion is the
publication Of certain letters Of Booker
Y. Washington president OF the Norma!
school. and the endorsement thereof ny
Bishop Daniel 4. Payne, Of Wilbertorce,
Ohio. bishop OF the African Methodist
Episcopal church. who has at various
times had charges in all parts Of the
South.
Washington charges that over 10 per
cent, of tie colored Southern ministers
are totally unfit by reason Of their want
of intelligence and morality to be leaders
of the people. This Bishop Payne ell
dorsed in the following words: Il say
emphatically in the presence Of the Great
Head Of the church that not more than
one-third Of the ministers, Baptist and
Methodist, in the South are morally and
Intellectually qualified. l will stand by
this statement and can demonstrate IT'S
truth fully by shameful and painful facts
with regard to names, times andpiaces.'
It IS charged this is the beginning Of a
move by the Northern wing of the Atri-
an church toward disgusting the
colored congregations South with their
pastors N order to create q demand for
Northern educated MINISTERS, graduates
Of colleges there, and to destroy the
present power and influence of leading
lights in the church at the South.
The indignation meeting held here is
to be followed by similar meetings all
over the Southern States. It was held
pursuant to a call Of the Rev. VIM. D..
Chapel, presiding elder of the Blaming
district Columbia annual conference, and
was convention of the coIored preach
ers of this entire district. They gave
vent to their indignation at Bishop
Payne's charges by adopting a preamble
and resolutions which would fill a.
column in The News. The opening
paragraphs give good idea Of the tone
of the resolutions and their red hot char
acter. They are as follows:
''Whersas, we believe Bishop Daniel
A. Payne has Intentionally and mali
ciously, with an aim to injure and de-
fame Southern ministers and their fami-
lies, assisted in circulating slanderous
letter throughout the public prints to
the effect that Southern ministers are
immortal and ignorant, too much so 10
fill the pulpit.
sWhereas, no man is more guilty of
immoral acts than Bishop Payne be-
cause he took our money from US, car
ried it North and did with the hard earn
ing of our people educate Northern
preachers and transferred South such
scoundrels who could not live North, be-
cause of their dirt and immortality and
who. in anything about immortality, have
taught us.
In closing they say: I'VE condemn
the article Of Bishop Payne and hurl
back the charge 10 him as base false
hood instigated by the devil, and we be-
lieve until he retracts, the entire South
should look upon him as personal enc
MY of the South, and therefore hold him
as we would poisonous adder"
They also remind the bishop Of an
alleged debt Of gratitude he owes the
South Carolina brethren who, it is
claimed, at the last general conference
at indianapolis, saved him from censUre
and probably impeachment for malad-
minstration.
An accompanying incident which
gives rise to a split IN the church in this
State is the alleged attempt ofPresidinS
Elder S. H. Jefferson, Of Sumter, to Sc
cede from the convention with the A. Il.
E. church with the whole district. He
IS charged with having himself made
blshoH of the First" a. N. 4. church
and seeking to carry his people with
him m.-Greenyille News.