GREETINGS FROM THE COLORED METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

To the Bishops and Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Greetings.
Dear Fathers and Brethren: The General Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America appointed their four Bishops and three others as a committee of Fraternity and Union. Their committee met in the city of Louisville, Ky., May 5, 1876.
We hereby extend to you our friendly feelings and Christian greeting, and pray for a long continued career of prosperity and Christian triumph on your part. For your part is our part, and your success is our success. Your general prosperity has made us glad, and we hope and pray for your greater growth in all things of the Spirit and fullness of Christ. And we hope that the day will soon come, when all shall be one in Church and in heart.
We will hope that you will have a profitable and harmonious session in your great and venerable body, and that the Lord may crown all your efforts with glory and praise. We are still your brethren in Christ.

W.H. MILES, Ch'm'n.
L.H. HALSEY, Sec'y.
<< ISAAC LANE>> .

July 22, 1852
THE NATIONAL ERA
Washington, D.C., Vol. VI. No. 290 p. 118

MOVEMENT IN KENTUCKY.

Below will be found the proceedings of a meeting in Madison county, Kentucky, which indicates that the independent Democracy of that State will not fall behind her sisters in the effort to nationalize Liberty. We are informed by a person who was present, that this was one of the largest political meetings ever held in the county. Read the proceedings:
At a meeting of the Emancipationists, according to previous notice, held in Madison county, in the Court-house, in the town of Richmond, Kentucky, on the 7th of June, 1852:
On motion of << Isaac Lane>> , Esq., W.P. More, Esq., was called to the chair, and James Dickerson, Esq., made secretary. The Chairman stated the object of the meeting to be to appoint delegates to the National Free Soil Convention to be held in Cleveland on the first Wednesday of August next, for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice President of the United States.
C.M. Clay offered the following resolutions, which he discussed at length, and which were unanimously adopted by one of the largest political meetings ever held in the county.
1. Resolved, That slavery is a violation of natural right, of pure Christianity, and true Republicanism.
2. Resolved, That the Emancipationists of Kentucky will use all honorable and constitutional means for its abolition.
3. Resolved, That the reasons which urge its overthrow in places where it now exists, more strongly demand that slavery shall not enter into Territories and States now free.
4. Resolved, That every consistent Emancipationist in State action, must be a Free-Soiler in National action.
5. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land - the people one - and the States sovereign, so far only as it allows. That it explains its own purpose and power - its purpose, "to establish justice" and "secure the blessings of liberty," and power in nowhere given destructive of these ends.
6. Resolved, That slavery is municipal and local to the States, and exists not by the guarantee of the Constitution, but by its sufferance - and that Congress has no right to establish slavery in the District of Columbia, in the National vessels on high seas, in the Territories, of in any place of exclusive National jurisdiction.
7. Resolved, That we propose to lustrate the National Government from its unconstitutional participation in slavery; to nationalize Liberty, and sectionalize Slavery, as the Constitution does.
8. Resolved, That the Whig and Democratic parties have departed from the principles of our fathers- are not the representatives of Republicanism; but by making slavery its defence, and propagandism their bond of union, they war upon the liberty of the black and upon the liberty of the white man, are in sympathy with despotism at home and abroad, and ought to be dissolved.
9. Resolved, That we have not lost faith in the Declaration of 1776, that Government legitimately exists only "by consent of and for the benefit of the governed" - that the rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," are inalienable and God-given rights. But on the contrary, that faith is strengthened by the experience, that whatever pre-eminence we hold among the nations is attributable to our approximation to these avowals. That these we cannot "Compromise." But to their defence we pledge once more "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
10. Resolved, That we are neither lawless destructives nor mad anarchists. But believing that judicious progression is the true conservatism, we are the friends still of law - of the marriage tie - the family relation - the rights of property - of home - of country - of Christianity; and because we are the friends of all these, we are the enemies of Slavery.
11. Resolved, That we have not nor do we intend to make Slavery or Emancipation "a hobby to ride down" all other interests; but on the contrary, we are the advocates of man's highest civilization - the perfect development of his physical, moral, and mental nature; and we will incorporate into our platform, in conjunction with the leading idea, "Liberty and opportunity to all," such principles and politics as will effect these ends.
12. Resolved, That among these are: The universal education of the People, as a duty which Government owes its subjects. By State and National action, so far as practicable, to secure to each family a home. More equitably to establish the legal rights of women. A judicious tariff upon foreign imports for revenue purposes, discriminating in favor of home products and manufactures. Improvement of rivers and harbors by the General Government, interior and by the seaboard, when of national interest. And lastly, the protection of labor against capital, by the avoidance of legal monopolies, and the encouragement of co-operative associations.
13. Resolved, That in order to carry out these measures, we recommend a permanent State and National organization.
14. Resolved, That eight persons - C.M. Clay, Harrison Burnam, I. Lane, Isaac Jett, Jonathan Howard, Turner Clarke, H. Doolin, and W.N. Ramsay - be constituted a central committee of correspondence, with powers to appoint sub-committees in the several counties; establish a journal for the vindication of our principles, and do any other act proper to be done in the premises; the chairman and one member constituting a quorum.
15. Resolved, That W.P. Moore, J.H. Rawlings, John Kinnard, L. McWilliams, Irvine Stapp, Sion Kimbrel, J.S. Golden, T. Coyle, N. Newby, Whit Moody, J.H. Harris, Al Cornelison, R. Clarke, W.A. Coffey, Z.E. Bush, to be appointed delegates from Madison county to the National Free Soil Convention, to be assembled at Cleveland, Ohio, on the first Wednesday in August next, and that the other counties in the State be recommended to do the same.
16. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting and their resolutions be published, at our expense, in the Weekly Messenger, the Louisville Journal and Democrat, and in the Free Soil paper at Washington, (the National Era.) W.P. MOORE, Chairman.
JAMES DICKERSON, Secretary.
(We learn that an electoral ticket will be run in Kentucky, pledged to support the nominees of the Pittsburgh Convention.

June 8, 1882
THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER
Philadelphia, PA

FRATERNAL GREETINGS.
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Bishop McTyeire said that before the regular business of the session commenced, he desired to have read to the Conference a communication, which although addressed to him, was intended for the Conference, from the African Zion Church, and signed by their Bishop Hood.
Assistant Secretary Vincil then read the communication as follows:

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., May 8, 1882.

To the Bishops and Members of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South:
Dear Fathers and Brethren: - Having been appointed to bear the fraternal greetings of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, to your venerable body, I exceedingly regret my inability to be present in person. I therefore take this method to fulfill in part what is expected of me by those I represent. There are special reasons why there should be a friendly feeling between your church and ours. Prominent among them is the fact that we occupy a relation toward your Church under the sun. We occupy the same field with you without rivalry. There exist no grounds for antagonism, for God himself seems to have appointed our bounds and fixed the limits for our operations. The great body (at least nine-tenths) of our Church, is in the South. Circumstances over which we have no control, have drawn a line between the two races, in all their social relations, as marked and distinct as the nose on a man's face. It is not a line of hate or dread of contact, but a line sanctioned by custom, still it has all the force of law. This social line has made the African Church a necessity.
Possibly we have more branches of that Church than we need, but until we can see our way clear to unite in one, we shall have to continue to imitate our white brethren, each branch using her best efforts to spread her Redeemer's kingdom.

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Bishop McTyeire said that he also had a communication from the Conference of the Colored Methodist Church recently held in Washington City, and it was read as follows:

To the General Conference of the M.E. Church South, now at Nashville, Tenn., in session assembled:
Dear Bishops and Brethren: - Whereas, we feel that relation which we should feel toward you, who have set us apart, a separate and distinct organized body of Methodists, being to you only as a child to its parent, we make bold to come to you with this our petition, hoping sincerely that our cry will not be in vain, and that you do consider this our petition, not only because we are of you, but because of the great necessity that impels us to this request. For, be you assured, that did we do not feel deeply the great need we ask, and did we not believe that you would grant us a kindly hearing, we should decline sending you this petition.
While we have no cause to complain of the success we have met with, considering the disadvantages under which we labor, yet we have many impediments to greater success - the accomplishment of more good - which cannot be removed by us without some pecuniary aid in our educational and missionary fields.
And whereas we feel the great need of educational advantages in our Church, seeing the great majority of our membership are devoting their attention and means to the education of their children in schools to other denominations;
And, whereas, Romanism in her hideous form is opening to our young people an avenue into her associations by this means:
And, whereas, we can do but little of ourselves to save our young people from these things without institutions of learning, therefore it was resolved by the General Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, and now in session in Washington, D.C., to place before your Christian body this petition, asking you as dear fathers to aid us in the erection of school buildings for the purpose of furnishing our membership with a suitable place to acquire an education under our supervision.
We have done something the past year to establish a school at Tennessee, and also at Byhalia, Miss., having purchased the grounds preparatory to building thereon.
We find our people willing and ready to aid us; but owing to failures in crops the two years passed, and the late overflow of our districts along the Mississippi River, they will be unable to do much for us the present year. We therefore come to you who know the value of an educated ministry, and who know our wants as well if not better, and we respectfully ask that your ecclesiastical body do consider some plan whereby we may receive some aid in this direction.
Whereas we find a growing tendency in all parts of the Southern States among our people to become identified with us and of us;
And, whereas, we wish to enter the cities which are crying for us to come hither, but having no means for either erecting places of worship or of sustaining ministers while engaged in missionary work;
And whereas, we feel that our interests are suffering for want of mission money;
And whereas, our people are comparatively unable to do anything, though they have given as liberally as possible of their scanty means, and we have accomplished much good with the small amount contributed;
And whereas, we feel the need of mission money to be one among our greatest needs, therefore we would respectfully request you to do anything which in your godly judgment would aid us in the spread of our work, and building up churches in places where we at present have only small but active missions, as at New Orleans, La., Atlanta, Ga., Corinth, Miss., and many other places.

Respectfully submitted,
BISHOP << ISAAC LANE>> ,
A.J. TINSON,
W.T. THOMAS.

Washington, D.C.