Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln writes to abolitionist Horace Greeley, responding to Greeley’s public rebuke of the president for not doing enough to free African slaves: …I have not meant to leave any one in doubt….I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority…
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…
Many white Southern Baptists do not mince words when excoriating the United States, as one example in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder amply demonstrates. Mr. Ely, a Federal Congressman, who, our readers will recollect, was captured at the battle of Manassas and for some time confined in Richmond, as a prisoner of war, was…