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the first large appropriation in the South, I called together the colored pastors & church officers of the city & proposed to form a mixed church, but they refused & demanded churches & pastors of their own, & accordingly, we have secured for them eight churches. We were thus compelled to build a church for the whites & as we have but one & the blacks eight, our intent to reserve it for the whites; while the Blacks are at liberty to rent pews therein to a limited extent. Colored ministers are invited to officiate in our pulpit; they sit in our altar & I have a large class of colored children in the Sunday School. These are the facts & we think that while men have some rights, that we are bound to respect.
General, you are at liberty to show this letter to the gentlemen in question, with the solemn assurance that they have done their best to rob our poor orphans of $10,000, the donation of a generous friend.
And you may well ask, How these two colored men should attempt to do this thing?
I. Instead of ascertaining the facts from the friends of the Asylum, they were feasted & toasted by its enemies - by the very Roman Catholics who had refused to work with the Protestants. It was at a dinner party, so they, themselves, say, that the two colored men stated that one had given $20 & the other $25 toward our church, which is simply False. At all events, we know of no such donations; the money