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ness in this community beyond which I am little 

 known ; and, as no defence of mine would be likely 

 to be of any avail, I was content to sit quietly under 

 the imputations, which a brother of my own faith 

 had seen fit to cast upon me, believing that the prov- 

 idence of God would not permit His Church to sus- 

 tain an injury from the imperfections of its min- 

 isters. r . 



I have lately been held up in bold relief as " one 

 who luxuriated from the sweat and blood of the 

 slave." My wife brought into my family four of 

 her domestics, who were attached to her from in- 

 fancy ; they are her private property, are still with 

 us, and are, without exception, communicants of the 

 Church. * * * * 



I am fully sensible that you believed what, under 

 excited feelings, you have" published. The charge 

 of cruelty and luxury, I think, ought to have been 

 withheld, as I hope that I do not indulge in either. 

 I have labored hard, and I hope not without suc- 

 cess, to build up our Church in the Southern States. 

 I preach three times every Sunday, and once in the 

 week. I attend to two Sunday-schools and a Bible- 

 class. My people, at least, will neither accuse me of 

 idleness, nor luxury. 



In Dr. Bachman's Synodical address, in 1845, he 

 reports to the Synod of South Carolina, as follows : 



An application was recently made to me by Bos- 

 ton Drayton, a colored member of the English 

 Lutheran Church of Charleston (St. John's), for 

 permission to go to Africa as a missionary of our 

 Church. He had, for some time, been an efficient 

 leader among the colored people of said congrega- 

 tion. His natural talents were respectable, and his 

 education considerably above that of persons of his 



