Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Feb. 6, 1860.
Purchase of Slave in Plymouth Church
—Yesterday the unusual religious exercises of Plymouth Churcb were varied by an episode always interesting to the congregation, the purchase of a slave. The object of interest was a little girl nine years old, nearby white, having only one sixteenth of negro blood, or half an octoroon, a gradation of amalgamation not specifically designated. This interesting chattel, said to be the daughter of a physician at Washington, was held to be worth $800, Which sum was of course raised accompanied by a good deal of enthusiasm. Mr. Beecher took the child into tho pulpit with him, and quite regained the confidence of the ultra portion of his congregation whose faith in him had been somewhat shaken by his recent outspoken conservative views on slavery.