Abraham Lincoln, raised a Baptist, is inaugurated (photo) as the 16th president of the United States of America in front of a partially finished United States Capitol. Reviled by southern white slaveholders as the “Black” president – because of their certainly that Lincoln will put an end to African slavery in the Union – Lincoln’s…
In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis, former U. S. Senator from Mississippi, is installed as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Southern Baptist minister Basil Manly, Sr., chaplain during the convention proceedings that in recent days birthed the Confederate States of America, opens the inauguration ceremonies in front of the capitol.…
The Charleston Mercury comments on Abraham Lincoln’s journey to Washington, D.C., for his presidential inauguration. The sentiments echo those of many white, slaveholding Baptists in the South: You will have read LINCOLN’S vulgar, insidious, and unmistakable coercion speech, at Indianapolis, ere this reaches you. The wilful ignorance of the federative nature of our government displayed…