th Congress, 1st Session, p. 1218.

[87] _Ibid._, 49th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 437, 1404, 3748, 4980,
4982, 5069.

[88] _Congressional Globe_, 42nd Congress, 1st Session, p. 3570.

[89] _Congressional Record_, 47th Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 2312,
2660, 2870-2871.

[90] _Congressional Record_, 55th Congress, 1st Session, p. 550.

[91] _Ibid._, 49th Congress, 1st Session, p. 3049.

[92] _Congressional Record_, 51st Congress, 2nd Session, p. 3490.

[93] _Ibid._, 52nd Congress, 1st Session, App., p. 508.

[94] _Congressional Record_, 51st Congress, 1st Session, pp. 10,707,
10,708.

[95] _Ibid._, 52nd Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 4695, 5974.

[96] _Ibid._, 53rd Congress, 2nd Session, p. 8382.

[97] _Congressional Record_, 56th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 166, 372,
594, 791; 2nd Session, p. 188; 55th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 3153.

[98] _Ibid._, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, App., p. 250; pp. 27, 206.
_Congressional Globe_, 42nd Congress, 1st Session, pp. 198, 178.

[99] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, 1st Session, p. 3340.

[100] _Ibid._, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 771, 2714, 2791.

[101] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, 2nd Session, pp.
1025-1026.

[102] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 118,
119.

[103] _Ibid._, 47th Congress, 1st Session, p. 6898.

[104] _Ibid._, 45th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 1646.

[105] _Ibid._, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 3457, 3467, 3468; 48th
Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 316, 2057; 49th Congress, 1st Session, p.
1919.

[106] _Ibid._, 45th Congress, 3rd Session, p. 1914.

[107] _Ibid._, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, pp. 2195-2196.

[108] _Congressional Record_, 44th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 1444,
1445.

[109] _Congressional Record_, 45th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 245,
1750; 3rd Session, 1314, 1316, 2309.

[110] _Ibid._, 53rd Congress, 2nd Session, p. 2399; 1st Session, pp.
1392, 1396.

[111] _Ibid._, 56th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 3814.

[112] _Ibid._, 55th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 541.

[113] Munro, _The Government of the United States_, p. 297.

[114] A Letter from John E. Bruce, Brooklyn, N. N., a man active
during the Reconstruction. June 6, 1921.

[115] James G. Blaine, _Twenty Years of Congress_, 1861-1881, Vol. II,
p. 515.

THE PRIORITY OF THE SILVER BLUFF CHURCH AND ITS PROMOTERS

In speaking of the beginning of Negro churches in the United States,
those of the Baptist faith must not be forgotten. Nor