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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My first trip. (search)
One day I heard him say that God had given all this continent to the white man, and that it was our duty to submit. Do the colored people, I inquired, believe all that sort of thing? Oh, no, sir, he returned; one man whispered to me as the minister said that, He be d----d! God am not sich a fool! Who elects your minister? He explained at considerable length, but I lost the greater part of his answer in thinking about the skeptical negro's vindication of the ways of Providence in its dealings with the colored children of men. I understood him to say that the church was governed by a board of trustees elected by all the churches in the city. Certain it is, that the people who pay the church expenses have neither part nor lot in the government of the church. Some time since, said the storekeeper, they told us we might have the church for----thousand dollars. (I have forgotten the sum he named.) Well, we raised it somehow or other, and got the building; but the