NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN ITEMS.

The most important item of news in this
direction, is the sale of a colored congregation
and church, at whole, indeed, by a clerical
black man, of which affair I purpose to
give an entire expose, in connection with
some other most startling facts the public
should not be any longer without knowing.—As Mr. Watkins says, "Let the whole truth
be told." So say we. Were not the colored
people in this community so indoctrinated
with the pro slavery sentiments of this man
Wilson, he could not stay in this community.
No longer ago than last week, we alluded to
the apathy and indifference of the ministers
in regard to anti slavery effort, though we
little thought that our declarations would so
soon be verified by such a bold, unequivocal
act as that perpetrated by Wilson. But will
his congregation, or any body of men, whom
his connection disgraces, receive a church on
such conditions? If there is, then the time
suggested by Dr. Spring ("when they will
no longer have a use for the property") may
be nearer at hand than we anticipate. The
next sale may be that of their bodies into
chains and slavery—disenfranchised without
the protection of law—surrounded by dens
of prostitution and rum holes, &c., &c., with
black men ready to sell and white men ready
to buy, may suggest to Dr. Spring ideas not
very congenial to our feelings, and that the
time may soon arrive when the church was
not necessary for the use of the colored
people, and that they might as well say at
once who it was really intended for. But
more anon.

OBSERVER.

BROOKLYN L. I. Feb 17. '55