Hide Article Text (OCR)
wliites and colored people. Uncle Frank Van Dyke presided with a~woll-fllled re. freslimcnt table, and Ma, Thomas Bailev attended to seating the audience, the whites in the aisles on one side of the house and[ people on the other. The sing-colored choir, under the direction1 Prof. Gardner, was particularly goodThe choir was made up of five colored menand three colored ladles, with fine naturalvoices. The pieces sang consisted selected sacred music exclusively, atrendered with so much effect, that the choiifrequently called to repeat them. The■ringing by a quartette from Middletown,consisting of two colored gentlemen andtwo colored ladies with cultivated voices.was most excellent. Prof. Gardner, theleader, has a robust but pleasanttand would be pronouced an effective singercritical audience. The whole per-highest degree creditable to.the colored people, who ought to beencouraged to repeat it, if only for the benprofessedly charitablepeople and white politiciansspicuous by their absence. We trust thecolored people in their next attempt, willgive us a specimen of old-time congregational singing, such as their fathers werefrequently invited to engage in moreDrake houseGreen, old Rufus being theman iu Goshen that ever openedhouse for the accommodation of colored people for congregationalbeen present last eveningwas, we thinkbeen inclined to takeback seat, instead of txjjng their leaderhe always was. The poor coloredbeen terribly humbugged sinceday, but we never gave them up. Coloredmen are as susceptible of improve-as white people, Especially inmusic, au^l last evening’s highlycreditable performance fully justifiesour opinion. Thanks to Mr. Geo. Bailymg’s old family pew, broken walls of thatcannot express the throng ofassociations that came rushing back in ourfathers were seekingspeak in tones of remonstrance and hopeand once more to meet erring children earth.
Newspaper Details
Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Apr 13, 1877
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 05 Apr 2020
Other Publications Near Middletown, New York
Middletown Times Press
Middletown Times Herald
Middletown Daily Times
Middletown Daily Press
Middletown Daily Herald
