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±~o1ks ~trai~ht~-from-the-shou1der that I could not pray a1on~ those iin~. I told them f1~foo~ted1y that, while I loved them and would 1o any reasona~le prayin~. for them, I c~i1d not pray a~i~si my conscience: that I not only wanted to ‘~e free, ~ut that I wanted to see all the 3~e~roes freed~

I then told them that God was u.~iii~ the Yankees to scourge the slaTeS-holders just as He had, centuries ~ fore, u.sed heathens and. owbcasts to chastise His chosen p~ople ~ the Children of Israel.“

(I~:~, ii; is to ‘~e noted thet, for s~. slave ~?i;~1~ 15 an~ 17 years of ate, rernRrka~le .~esta:~ent was displayed.)

~‘:.e Parson then entered into a mild tirade a~.ainst Yankees, saying; “The only time the Northern Deople ever helped the i~i~er wa~ when they freed him. Tbe~y aïe not friends of the ~Te~ro and m~mny a time, from my pulpit, have I warj~ed ii~e~ers about ~Qin~ North. No, sir, the colored man d.oesnTt ~elon~ in the North ~ has no ~usiness up there, arid you may tell the world that the Reverend VT. 3.Allen makes no ~ .nes about sayi2LL~ that~ He also says that, if it w~.sn~t for the influence of the v,hite race in the South, ~he Ne~ro rt~.ce ~)o:~d revert to sava~ery within a yeari •dhy, i~ they knew for dead. certain t~ ~t there was n~t a ~olicern~n or officer of the lavi in ColumT~u~ toni~ht, the ~od Lord only :~nows whal theyTddo toni~ht“~
_~oy of between .ØpprQxi-~ familiarity 1.!ith the Old
.. ~1 the good Parson had delivered himself as quoted, he was asked.