ABSTRACT
JAMES JOHNSON possessed a cutting tongue which he could never curb. Where moral issues and the interest of the Negro Race were concerned. his words were gall and wormwood to all classes of Europeans who would not subscribe to his Ethiopian ideology and to Africans who would not evince fanatical Christian piety and passionate patriotism. Thus whilst the Protestant mission was being confounded by his vision of a monolithic continental African Church. Roman Catholics and their sympathisers in the Colony were having a taste of the vitriol in his tongue and pen.
