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illiberal, unchristian spirit, they ought to be made to leave the cause of the Freedmen if they would under such a garb - do them such an inguiry - It is the first time after nearly forty years of Public Service that I was ever prohibited of entering a pulpit merely upon Sectarian reins- the first time that any Baptist Church in all the different ones that I have visited Either north or south - white or Colored - that have objected simply on the Ground that I was a Presbyterian - but on the other hand - while being fully aware of my [[strikethrough]] Ecl [[/strikethrough] Ecclesiastical connexions

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