Rev. Fulton Tangled in the Color Line
REV. JUSTIN D. FULTON, the anti-Romanist lecturer, got sadly tangled up in the color line in Richmond, Va., recently. In an address to the First African Church of that city he said: “Let the black man have money, and he can buy railroads in Georgia and other States where a negro is not allowed equal privileges with a white man, and then the former can say to the latter, ‘Now if you don’t behave yourself I will put you off my train.’” In concluding he announced that he would preach at the First Baptist Church (white) the following Sunday evening, but the next day the deacons of the church met and after reading the Doctor’s remarks, unanimously decided that the church would not be open to him.