Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, months ago preached that African slavery is unquestionably biblical. Many other Southern Baptist pastors have also preached this central message of the South from their pulpits. Yet for an institution ordained by and blessed of God, the war has already revealed that enslaved Africans…
Today columnist William O. Stoddard of the New York Examiner writes: Senator Harris, of New-York, has been here for several days, and is looking in much better health than during the last session of Congress. New York Senator Ira Harris (1802-1875) is one of President Lincoln’s “most frequent evening visitors,” a reference both to the…
A news item in the Baltimore Exchange discusses an alleged conversation that Richard Fuller (illustration), the well-known Baptist preacher who at the time is pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore, had with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a former Baptist. Fuller, a pro-slavery advocate, is also president of the slave-centric Southern Baptist Convention. His…