ev. Harry Hosier the First Negro
Preacher in the M. E. Church in America.--His Remarkable
Eloquence as a Pulpit Orator.--Early Prohibition against
Slave-holding in the M. E. Church.--Strength of the Churches and
Sunday-schools of the Colored Members in the M. E. Church.--The
Rev. Marshall W. Taylor, D.D.--His Ancestors.--His Early Life and
Struggles for an Education.--He Teaches School in Kentucky.--His
Experiences as a Teacher.--Is ordained to the Gospel Ministry and
becomes a Preacher and Missionary Teacher.--His Settlement as
Pastor in Indiana and Ohio.--Is given the Title of Doctor of
Divinity by the Tennessee College.--His Influence as a Leader,
and his Standing as a Preacher 465

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE COLORED BAPTISTS OF AMERICA.

The Colored Baptists an Intelligent and Useful People.--Their
Leading Ministers in Missouri, Ohio, and in New England.--The
Birth, Early Life, and Education of Duke William Anderson.--As
Farmer, Teacher, Preacher, and Missionary.--His Influence in the
West.--Goes South at the Close of the War.--Teaches in a
Theological Institute at Nashville, Tennessee.--Called to
Washington.--Pastor of 19th Street Baptist Church.--He occupies
Various Positions of Trust.--Builds a New Church.--His Last
Revival.--His Sickness and Death.--His Funeral and the General
Sorrow at his Loss.--Leonard Andrew Grimes, of Boston,
Massachusetts.--His Piety, Faithfulness, and Public Influence for
Good.--The Completion of his Church.--His Last Days and Sudden
Death.--General Sorrow.--Resolutions by the Baptist Ministers of
Boston.--A Great and Good Man Gone 475

Part 9.

_THE DECLINE OF NEGRO GOVERNMENTS._

CHAPTER XXVII.

REACTION, PERIL, AND PACIFICATION.

1875-1880.

The Beginning of the End of the Republican Governments at the
South.--Southern Election Methods and Northern Sympathy.--Gen.
Grant not Responsible for the Decline and Loss of the Republican
State Governments at the South.--A Party without a Live
Issue.--Southern War Claims.--The Campaign of 1876.--Republican
Lethargy and Democratic Activity.--Doubtful Results.--The
Electoral Count in Congress.--Gen. Garfield and Congressmen
Foster and Hale to the Front as Leaders.--Peaceful
Results.--President Hayes's Southern Pol