Privately determined to free the South’s African slaves, U.S President Abraham Lincoln today ratchets up Northern military might while maintaining a cautious public profile regarding slavery. The Union Army receives a boost from the president’s order to draft 300,000 militia for a period of nine months. It is doubtful that Lincoln believes he will need…
Georgia Baptists this week read about life in the Confederate capital of Richmond following the recent Confederate victory over U.S. General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, as described by an editorial in the Christian Index. Our capital is surely not a place for pleasure seekers, at this time. Crowded with visitors from all parts of…
Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index newspaper, this week offers commentary on how the Confederacy, a Christian nation, should treat their enemies–Northerners. The religion of Jesus announced a rule of conduct which amazed the philosophy of the world.–Love your enemies and pray for them. Human teachers had dreamed of no such charity. Paganism…