Amos C. Dayton (1811-1865), a popular Baptist pastor and advocate of Landmarkism, this month offers his answer to the Southern question of, “Is God on Our Side?” Regarding African slavery, the Confederacy is clearly on God’s side, according to Dayton. But on certain issues of government holiness and purity, the South needs to align itself…
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…
Southern Baptist pastor and author Amos C. Dayton, a Tennessean and leading advocate of the theory that Baptist lineage can be traced back to John the Baptist, is in Georgia preparing for a speaking tour to Baptists and other Christians on the subject of slavery. He declares he will: … treat at length of the…