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Baptists and the American Civil War: October 9, 1862

Following a string of prior Northern Baptist resolutions supporting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Ohio Baptists, assembled at their annual state convention this month, offer their own resolution. “Whereas the powers that be are ordained of God, and he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God,” and is threatened with…