Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports: The Rev. A. T. Spaulding, paster of the Berean Baptist Church, 24th Ward, Philadelphia, has resigned for the purpose, it is said, of going to the South. Two days hence, Samuel Richards records in his diary: We hear of Brantley and Spaulding Baptist ministers from Philadelphia returning to their Southern…
On the northern home front, a strange accident takes the life of one of the most prominent men of the state of Massachusetts. George Nixon Briggs (born 1796), lawyer, former U.S. Whig Congressmen (1831-1843) and seven-term governor of Massachusetts (1844-1851), reaches for an overcoat in the closet of his home in Pittsfield. In so doing,…
A newly-published apologist tract for slavery is circulating and making glad the hearts of white slaveholders in the South. Entitled, “Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible,” the booklet-length volume, written by a Baptist layman, surveys the presence of slavery in the Bible, then concludes: If our Southern slaveholders were all animated by this heavenly spirit of…