Report Upon the Application of St. Mark's Church (Colored) to be Admitted into Union with this Convention

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First edition. Octavo. 11pp. Printed self-wrappers. Disbound with first and last leaf detached but present, a very good copy with the text complete, and a contemporary ink number ("7") on front cover "(7)." A document related to post-War efforts of this South Carolina African-American Episcopal Church to unite with the main (Caucasian) church. Text of the report includes a historical sketch of the Church, noting that its members were, before the War, "mostly free, and in varying numbers, were attached to the several city churches; many of them were of great responsibility, and were accounted of sufficient piety to be admitted to the most solemn ordinance of the Christian Church.". During the Civil War, the only functioning Episcopal Church was "filled with White people, and it has no galleries.". Under these circumstances, the St. Mark's Church (Colored) was formed. Approval of the request for admission "would be granted, as a matter of course, to a white congregation. But the presence of colored delegates upon this floor is a new thing.". The report recommends that St. Mark's be admitted, demonstrating that we have "risen above the prejudices of race and color, and sacrificed our most inveterate habits of thought and feeling upon the altar of Christian charity." Should this "precedent" open the gates to an avalanche of similar applications, the law of "self-preservation" will provide sufficient reason to deny them. The Report counsels against rejection, for such a course of action would be based on "unchristian temper." Uncommon. *OCLC* locates only a single copy (South Carolina). Not in *Blockson; Work; LCP* or *Turnbull.*. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 523652

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