An editorial in this week’s Christian Index defends the rightness of the South and reinforces Amos C. Dayton’s Georgia speaking tour in defense of the godliness of African slavery. We are delighted when we contemplate the state of public sentiment in the South. We perceived during all our late reverses no wavering, no doubting, no…
William R. Williams, prominent Northern Baptist pastor of Amity Baptist Church, New York, delivers the keynote address at this evening’s convening of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. The war is heavy on the minds, hearts and spirits of all present, and Williams offers no sympathy to the Southern Cause as supported by his fellow…
Mary Beckley Bristow, an active member of Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky (a Calvinist congregation), in the pages of her diary offers personal commentary on the prospects of southern secession: Have been too restless in mind about the situation of this once happy country to even answer the letters of my correspondents. I can…