C., there are two
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine church-members, and of these one
thousand six hundred-and thirty-seven, more than one half, are colored.
In State Street, Mobile, there is a colored Methodist Church who pay
their minister, from their own money, twelve hundred dollars a year. Not
long since they took up a voluntary contribution for Home Missions,
amounting to one hundred and twenty dollars. Their preacher was sent by
the Conference, according to rotation, into another field, and the
blacks presented him with a valuable suit of clothes.
You see things here, good and evil, side by side, and mixed up together,
one thing counterbalancing another. If you reason theoretically upon
this subject, as you do "about the moon," to quote from your letter, it
is enough to make one almost a lunatic, and I do not wonder that some of
our good people at the North, who pore over this subject in this way,
are on the borders of insanity.
My great mistake at the North with regard to this subject of slavery
was, I reasoned about it in the abstract, instead of considering it in
connection with those who are slaves under our laws, bound up with us in
our civil constitution.
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