This week’s edition of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder publishes Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s recently-issued “General Orders No. 138.” J. D. Hufham, editor, notes that “Gen. Lee’s address to the army after the battle of Fredericksburg, will command the interest and admiration of all our readers.” The General Commanding, takes this occasion to express…
Southern Baptist newspapers have not yet weighed in on the Emancipation Proclamation, but today’s edition of the secular Richmond Enquirer offers a few unkind words about Abraham Lincoln‘s legal freeing of Confederate slaves, calling it “the most startling political crime, and the most stupid political blunder, yet known in American history…Southern people have now only…
Among Southern Baptists, the drumbeat continues: extortioners must be shamed into repenting of their sins so that God can unleash his blessings upon the Confederacy and bring the war to an end. Today’s missive comes from Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index. While published this day, the editorial was penned in the midst of the Battle of…