Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-11
ZION CHURCH CAMPAIGN FOR
 FINAL s653 FOR PARSONAGE

The campaign of the members of the Mckinley Avenue A. NJ E, Zion church to raise $500 for a parsonage has brought in over 1000 to date and re- doubled efforts are now being made to Set in the laso S600 to com 2ie>e the fund. Return postal cards asi.I1!ss for con- triaution of dollar have been sent out thts week to q large number of Norwich people and an interested friend Of the cause. has prepared the following sketch of Governor Buclzinghams interest in the colored race:
 One Of the chapters of the history of Norwich that all cherish who are reacn- ing the allotted age of three score yea-s and ten, ig the period during the de- cade Of 1360-1S70. During the dark days of the decade, and after Sumter had been fired upon, Of all the governors of the northern states there was none as sympathetic in mind with President Lincoln as our cy-a Governor Of Cornectjcut-William A. Buchinaham-on who promised quota after quota of troops when needed by the federal army and always fulfilled that promise 9 man Who believed that ''ex- ample is better than rreceot" and in ad- Gi1ion to his public efror's paid for artiI- leIy equipment from his own private funds. Proof of this every school child { pl IGCesy ma III the letters ". 4. /; B. engraved on the breech Of the can
 non, one on the grounds Of the Buck l ing',ar Memorial, and the other on the 1 state arraory grounds.
 1 Our older Norwtch residents remember 1 that these guns did their part i1I pro 1 claiming the message abroad ir our land i that a condition existed contrary to the
 sentiment expressed in our Constitution
 and that this condition must end if we
 were to continue an undivided nation Tn addition to our spirit of patriotism l We cherish these memories because our Iwar governor was Q Norwich man.
 II is the personal touch, not simply l. 2 knowledge of his nationwide state craft but the intimate acquaintance oi his local benefcerce.
 How did he teach Americanism in that reconstruction period? He built the "Averuc Chape!' in 1266 on Boswell ave. nue. which was later voted by the officers and taa2hers of the Sunday school tc
 be named the Buc.singhan charel
 The following year Mrs. Buckingham
 gave the bell that we still hear senlins
 out it's Invitation in e. although i
 has kept along with the nations prog
 ress and now calls 10 worship our nexe } Americans who still recall youthful mem oriss of ancient Greece.
 One proof of the dissemination Of new without the press, at the close of th
 WET was an extended knowledge amor. the freedmen O. the south that the in . v!tation of Conaecticut's war governo , shown by his ac.!ons rather than words J ne e'led no written acceptance.
 Do you remember the first cornin
 generation that arrived at our borders
 Evans, Hall, Pennington, Davis an 1 Elias Voorhees,. surnaInes reminding on , of their former masters?
 To you remember the fifteen coAore women who were taught the message c Life on Sundays in the corner of tn : chapel that they might fit life in it's ne' meaning, and visited on weekdays t , a6vIse in it's practcabiEty?
 Some of then. still live and revere tn memory of their teacher, Miss Lihb Riniey, the governors niece and wit whom she lived
 With such teaching and interest lacl; 5 ing would be their ambition did they nc s feel the next logical step sooner or late : was owning their own church home. I 2 1874. but eight years after the Buckine 8 ham chapel dedication, the same cere