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which happened many years ago, in Virginia and elsewhere. I 

 was glad to find that the Episcopal clergyman at Montgomery 

 had just established a Sunday school for the negroes. I also hear 

 that a party in. this church, already comprising a majority of the 

 clergy, are desirous that the negro congregations should be rep 

 resented in their triennial conventions, which would be an im 

 portant step toward raising the black race to a footing of equality 

 with the whites. In these times when many here are entertain 

 ing a hostile feeling toward Great Britain, and when the gov 

 ernment is lending itself to the excitement, I find the ministers 

 of the Episcopal Church peculiarly free from such a spirit, and 

 cherishing a desire for peace and a friendly disposition toward the 

 English. The Methodists had just been holding a protracted 

 meeting in Montgomery, and such is the effect of sympathy and 

 of the spirit of competition, that the religious excitement had 

 spread to all the other sects. 



