Baptist newspapers this week deign to peer into the future. While there is no unanimity as to what the future holds, for Baptist periodicals of the South a gaze forward at least offers the opportunity — if one so wishes — to lay aside the national disasters of 1863. Unlike the gloom and doom pronounced…
Pride in the Confederacy among white Southerners is evident in today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper. When the second temple of Jerusalem was erected, the contrast of its limited dimensions with the amplitude and splendor of the first, affected the old men, who remembered it, and they wept. Intent on the material structure, they thought…
An editorial in this week’s Christian Index defends the rightness of the South and reinforces Amos C. Dayton’s Georgia speaking tour in defense of the godliness of African slavery. We are delighted when we contemplate the state of public sentiment in the South. We perceived during all our late reverses no wavering, no doubting, no…