From Historical Rutland: an illustrated history of Rutland, Vermont, from the granting of the charter in 1761 to 1911 by Rev. F. E. Davison, Rutland, Vt.:  P.H. Brehmer,  1911,  page 12: 

Negro Congregational Minister

On the west side of the town, the farmers are better husbandmen than those on the east, and raise the best wheat, butter and cheese of great quantities of wheat they send off to foreign markets.

In this place also is a handsome meeting house, of which the Rev. Mr. Haynes, an African (from the state of Connecticut) is the minister. And here let me pause to pay a tribute to nature and humanity. Violated, alas! how cruelly, how often, is that unhappy race who are of this excellent clergyman's color, and who are supposed by some (Grant, Oh Gracious Heaven, that the number may daily decrease) scarce to possess faculties above the "brutes that perish." But let me ask, when at the Great Day, the secrets of all hearts shall be laid open, whether Mr. Haynes' color will be objected to by that Almighty power, who took him from the dust of the earth and made him man? Who gave him the form, the soul, the affections, the feelings of a man? Will his being a negro be then objected to when his life is found to be conformable to his preaching? When he is known to have been the disinterested friend of mankind, to have been assiduously employed like the Good Samaritan, in pouring balm into the wounds of the unhappy? Oh, Great God! What will then be Thy judgment day sentence? Wilt Thou regard the shade of his complexion, (if indeed there be any difference in the shades that distinguish the human race) or the beauty of his mind? Poor suffering sons of one common parent, may your task-masters regard ye as brothers; may their kindness draw forth all yours, and may ye so live, as hereafter, in common with the worthy pastor I have been describing, to hear those blessed sounds pronounced in your favor, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter ye into the joy of your Lord."

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