Sheafe's fiery denunciation of the Republican party in 1895 for its betrayal of black Americans during the decades following Civil War not only caused a stir in Ohio, but also sent shock waves further south. In western Kentucky, the segregationist Hartford Weekly Herald cited it as evidence of increasing "negro" demands for "social recognition," and noted that it had "created a pronounced sensation."
For more on the speech, delivered in just months before Sheafe became a Seventh-day Adventist, see Lewis C. Sheafe: Apostle to Black America (pp. 104-111). Here's the excerpt from the Hartford newspaper:
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