Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1899-07-01

1lo not meet WITH the approval OF the
President Of Virginia Seminary neither
did II meet with the approval OF the
Board Of Trustees.
Society did not attempt TO force the
Issue, bur its Representatives IN this
state proceeded to attempt to secure
the removal OF the man whom they re-
Rarded as the cause of their trouble.
Prot. HAYES 10 q graduate of O0erlin
College and is . proficient Latina and
Greek scholar. He IL an orator Of won
derful magnetism. and transcendent
power.
At no meeting OF the Virginia Bap-
list State Convention did his enemies
dare make an open declaration of their
intentions TO rem we him from the
presidency of the school.
I need not refer st length though, to
the attempt Co elect members OF the
Board OF Trustees who would remove
him. The contentious at Soffolk and
Richmond are fresh IN the public
mind.
The HLxcTToE AT RICHMOND.
An effort was made to defeat me in
my home city. in the Second BDptiet
Church Rev. y. ID. Lewis. ID. D.. pas
the state, the Rev. +. NJ. Armistead,
ID. D., declared that il elected, he
would not serve on the Board with rne
1 was elected together with the Rev.
Dr.. r. II. Bowling. ID. D., and the Rev.
w f. Graham, d. D.. for the term Of
three years.
The distinguished divine who was
an ardent "cooperstionist" must have
reconsidered his hssty assertions for be
has served ever since on shat board
with me.
The B lard OF Trustees stood to 4 in
fevor OF Pr sident Hayes. Ny defeat
would have meaht bis defeat.
Those who attended that Convention
will remember what blunderbuss the
Few DR.. Lewis was in that meeting,
insulting Rev. DR.. Graham and his
friends in an ediGce whers they were
the guests
Tue failure to succeed in their pur-
pose only intensified their anger.
representative of the American Bap.
tist Home Mission Society openly de
cIared that il President Hayes wal
reelected by the Board that the ap
preparation would not be forth com
ing. He was true TO his word.
In the meantime one of the pro
visions which the American Baptist
Home Mission Society submitted auC
which was approx ID by the Convention
was that the colored BaptiEts of the
state were TO raise thirty five thous
and dollars for the Society, to be useC
| in itsl-work in this state, and of thi
amount fifteen thousand dollars would
60 TO pay the. debts of the Virgins
seminary.
rrrrprv rrvr rzorsArn norrAaa
1t provided that the twenty tho ls
aud dollars should be raised fer the So
ciety first, and after this had BEEF
| paid into the treasury of the Society
| whatever came In AfteEw ards would &
to Virginia Seminary.
| Now l aver that any man, ever
though he be "ss big q fool as b itler'
| old Dick" could see shat with the NOR
gage debt pressing upon Virgini
Seminary, the denial OF the priViier
by the American b .ptist Home MIssioi
Society to allow the president to ap
peal for money, to raise this none
without their consent, thai the Viz
ginia seminary would b - sold out scat
tered and the faculty sent on their wa
sorroWing ioag before they would re
ceive one cent of the money SO mag
nanImously" promised.
The cry was made that the colore
Baptists could not raise fifteen thous
and dollars for their own school
through their own agents, and throug
their own channels bat coS1d raise thiF
ty five Thousand dollars through Oh
agents OF q whit society located owe
three hundred miles away.
A more culpabie admission OF racia
Iincapscity we have never witnesses
more fagrsnt violation OF ever
principle of racial independence W
have never seen chronicled.
AN OPEN DECLARATION.
But to the contention at Lexing.o
The brethren or ''co-operationists" q
they are now called. led By the prime
of blunderers, the modern Jonah ~ th
person OF the Rev. DIR q ID. Levi
openly declared their intention of de
feating the brilliant Rev. b. r. Fox.
d and the able Rev. A. Chisholm, I
ID, as members of the Board Of Trus
tees, solely because they were friend
~ to the policy Of the President Of VII
ginia Seminary. They declared to- thu
Prof. Hayes would have to go.
Sc certain were they of victory, Dol
sessing as they did the machinery
the convention and the Presiden
Rev. II. n. Mitchell, d. D., that R
DR.. Lewis, ID. L.. published q letter
the columns OF the PLANET advisin
against q split.
But,
"The best laid schemes of mice a
men Gsrg aft sgley."
President Hayes was not idle. Fro
one section of the state to tbs othe
he travelled. He was ably seconds
, by his friends.
Rev DIR. FOx's friends learning tn
ne was to be ousted rallied, aud
|, Rev. DR.. Chisholm mad host of sul
; DOB ters too in the Southwest, hAviE
been for years the beloved pastor
the Baptist Church st Bedford Git
when the 'co-operatiopists" reach,
Lexington, Va. in the home of Il
accomplished Rev. W. L. Johnson,
D., who is also an ardent "co-oper
2 ZIONIST" their hair well-nigh stood I
a end.-they did see strange conve