A Voice From Massachusetts
January 2, 1904
Summary
A reader of The Planet praises black ministers for focusing on religion rather than voting.
Transcription
Editor of the Planet
Dear Sir:- The peace meeting recently held by the Baptist divines in your city and the union of all good people whom they are ably leading, affords far better encouragement to the struggling masses of the “Negro” people than the so called National “Negro” Suffrage League, which lately convened at Washington, D.C. The effort on part of the Baptist ministers of Richmond to bring peace and unite the forces of the different “colored” Baptist churches is characteristic of a warmer religious unity and a greater degree of divine learning of the understanding that the Christian church will live longest and conform to a higher standard of morals and accomplish more religious good in the spirit of unity than in the sentiment of discord.
Dear Sir:- The peace meeting recently held by the Baptist divines in your city and the union of all good people whom they are ably leading, affords far better encouragement to the struggling masses of the “Negro” people than the so called National “Negro” Suffrage League, which lately convened at Washington, D.C. The effort on part of the Baptist ministers of Richmond to bring peace and unite the forces of the different “colored” Baptist churches is characteristic of a warmer religious unity and a greater degree of divine learning of the understanding that the Christian church will live longest and conform to a higher standard of morals and accomplish more religious good in the spirit of unity than in the sentiment of discord.
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Lower Left Quadrant
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Megan Brooks
Citation
“A Voice From Massachusetts,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/154.