The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-23
SOUTHERN ORATORv
Continued from First Pase.


those who favored the creation Of ra@
cial missionary districts, and were
fatty opposed to discharging from
further consideration of the subject
the committee which had been going
over memorials and resolutions hand
ed up by half a dozen dioceses. He
said right of that he abominated Sec
tarianism and sectionalism. and de-
clared that sectionalism was rather TO
be found in the district lying west OF
the south end of Fifth avenue than
in that which lies south of Mason
and Dixon's line He knew the ne
groes wanted a bishop OF their own,
and he MAS in faxor Letting them-
have one.
Opinion Worth Something.
Thomas W Bacot, of South Caro-
lima, yielded TO no man in his idea
OF the responsibility which lies upon
the South to take care Of the negro.
His family having been in South Caro-.
lima since 1855, he felt his opinion
on the negro was worth something.
He felt that the coiored man had
not developed sufficiently to justify
giving him jurisdiction over his own
people. He saw that 1t would mean
not only a separate bishopric, but
separate conventions. and then sep
arate Church altogether He said the
convention years ago in Boston had
decided that it was unwfse.
Thereupon John Cameron Buxton.
OF North Carolina. said that the de-
cision referred to wasn't the first mis-.
take that had been made in Boston
on the negro question. He respected
the negro. He had touchd elbows
with him at the communion table, and
he didn't consider that he had low.
cred his social standing by doing "a.
He remembered that he and his moth-:
err and others had been cared for BY
negroes while his father was follow
ing the flag of the Confederacy. Trust
in them had not been betrayed. Now
he would give them a chance to Dc.
velop their own Church as they had
developed their own physicians and
druggists and lawyers. although he
wouldn't testify to the capabilities OF
the last. He proposed that joint
commission be named to look further
into the matter.
Rev. George Sherwood Whitney. ~
Georgia opposed the creation Of RAJ
cial districts and said that Ii was just
as sensible to say that the FiiiptnO0
ought to have seif-government, so that
they could develop themselves Then
he came right out with an argum0nt
that had up to that time been Kept
under cover.
w I4db Wouiu bS my Ppnittcu, ~
said, IF l should have a negro mis-
sion in connection with my parish, and
the colored bishop came? Suppose
he had ideas that didn't agree with
mine. Should l submit to him? IL
| had to | would be compelled to gtv0
up my work in the Church
He said those who favored the ra-
csal districts were arguing that tho
way to keep the negro in the Church
was to let him have a Church by him-
self. which he described az nom
sequitur. He said it was the dioceseS~
with the fewest negroes that were
asking for the change.
Rev. E. w. Gamble. of Alabama.
said he was born in the Everglades
of Florida. and knew what negr0
was. He lived in the Black Belt" %
Alabama, and yet he wouldn't heai-
tate to talk To a negro bishop IL the
negro bishop talked sense. and, II NJ 4
didn't, he'd tell him SO mighty quick.
Rev. Philip Cook moved that q Joint
commission OF fifteen be appointed to 4
investigate the whole matter. Others
spoke for or against delay, and DR.. Ct
b. Bryan. of Southern Virginia. made
an able argument In favor OF throw. H
ing the whole subject overheard. The
resolution to name the commission \
prevailed.