Defeated in their attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, the United States is all the more determined to emancipate African slaves and limit white freedoms in the South–so charges a Baptist editorial this week. Our enemies foiled in their plans of subjugation and disappointed in their expectations of easy conquest, like a wounded…
The North Carolina port town of Wilmington, a quiet community of some 10,000 persons on the eve of the war, has been transformed into a center of “profiteering and money-laundering” that is a magnet for speculators, “rogues and desperadoes,” “crooks, confidence men, and prostitutes.” Many residents have fled from their homes to safer and more…
Week to week, white Southern Baptists are busy defending African slavery and denigrating the United States for attempting to thwart God’s express will for the African race. Several items in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index focus on this very theme. One article castigates Northern Baptists for their duplicity in such decidedly ungodly doings, by…