Convening in Athens, delegates (all white, all male, and many slaveowners) to the annual Georgia Baptist Convention meeting issue a “Report of the Committee on the present political crisis,” which reads as follows: “Whereas, the state of Georgia, in the legitimate exercise of her sovereignty, has withdrawn from the Confederacy known as the United States…
Today is Sunday, and U. S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln, en route to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration, attends church services in Buffalo, New York. The New York Herald reports on the event: “Mr. Fillmore called at ten A.M. with a carriage for Mr. Lincoln and both attended divine service at the Unitarian church. Dr. Hosmer,…
From today’s Richmond Times Dispatch, “A Matter of Prophecy“: Elder Pratt preached in Boston, on Sunday, on the doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church.–The prophet said there was to be a downfall of nations, beginning with the rebellion of South Carolina, as has been revealed to Joe Smith twenty-eight years ago, but the Saints…