The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-07-02
(I5y w. +. BOST.)

TO-. ". X. Splll'I, tclOit ~, - y
cord. one Of the best known ministers
OF his race. was here yesterday gong
to richmond 10 visit the SotdleTs
Home and to meet his old master.
Samuel Dunn, Who is an inmate OF
that place now.
IN wiring to his former slave. Mr..
Dunn referred in the most affection
ate terms To my colored Drother,
for they we're years members OF the
sane household and lived long and
happily under the same roof. Inc
minister. now Il successful man get
ting into old age gracefully, cannot
speak Of their relations long without
tears.
Two years ago the two met in Rich
mond and the NeWS-Leader wrote the
story OF their reunion. They had long
lost sight Of each other and the old
master began to call for a convention
of his former slaves. -Four or five
of them We're found and in their pros
prritY they administered to their mas
ter in his adversely. within twenty
four hours | expect TO make him a
substantial contribution" DIR. Spiller
said yesterday. and he left on the af-
ltrnoou train for that place.
Took Horse for Him.
Or. spiders master went to the
front. \ bad foot kept him from
the roster a long time, but he finally
made the army and finished with the
Confederacy at A~ppOmattOX. There
with the chaos and confusion Of the
hnal fight, DR.. Spiller borrowed" a
Yankee horse. as Attorney General
Beckett said, and gave it to his mas
ter to begin over a life devastated by
war. The conflict ended, the slaves
- were scattered, and the Dun family
died. or was broken up. The cOlOred
1yn,itt, bod Lon Pm d ~ of u n o. II, cloy-.
cry. had sat at the feet of the mas
ters and learned theology as did Ga
maiiel. He entered the ministry and
has served thirty-seven years. He is
now pastor Of the First Baptist church
(cOlored) of Concord.
The preacher is one of too fine a
grain to dwell upon the condition OF
his former master. The relationship
is sacred to him. But the master has
never demurred to the publicity OF
the story and a portion OF it has seen
the light OF day. 1t is remarkable in
that forty-seVen years of absence have
lessened nom Of the fondness of the
one for the other and that these have
seen a reversal Of conditions by which
the taye ministers to the comforts OF
an old master.
Il want little Dick" the old Con.
federate said when he called his blacl
boys together. Little Dick was tn
preacher, Richard Spiller. who slep
on the foo Of the bed when his mas
ter was at home. And at sixty, Nj
Dunn calls him Little Dick" though
his hair is white and he is Of strong
st ocky build.
SOuthcrners for Him.
Il want to say that it is %Outherner
FOR me- Doctor Spiller said yester
day. II love the southern white PEG
pie and no place on earth suits m
SO we'll.
y have heard a good deal abou
the Wilmington riot, but 7 have com
from there this week and / want
say that I would rather live in Wi
mington one year than in the Mort
one day. The people there were jus
IA kind to me as they could be an
when they Couldn't subscribe to m
appeal. they were just as sorry as the
could be. They wanted to help an
! knew they were sincere.
~ have lived in Pittsburg an
preached there two years. There
50 much insincerity and hypocris
there. 1t took me a year to get
place in which to live. They bold
said they didn't want any negro.
about them while protesting gre;
friendship for US. And the only VIZ
that | ever got a desirable house w;
through a southern White man. WI
was my friend"
MIR. Sprunt Kind.
DIR. Spiller was in Wilmington
the interest OF DIR. Shepard's trainir
school in Durham. To aid in the So
lement work. Col. w. II. Sprunt ga,
him $500 and 500 for the SUNNI
school which opens in a few days.
collected $3.50 among the few whit
there. "Certainly there is a stro,
sentiment, not to say the,
which Would help our people to 7
themselves of the burden Of ignc
ance and the plague of inefficient