The lead article in today’s Christian Index is a commentary by Georgia Baptist minister E. R. Carswell, a pastor in Waynesboro, Georgia. He thus offers his thoughts regarding “The War,” replete with a sober assessment of the southern economy, the greed of planters, and recent battlefield reversals — as well as issuing a stirring call…
Eight months into the war, as the year draws to a close, southerners are concerned about the economic prospects of the Confederacy, now isolated from the manufacturing muscle of the North. Slavery remains the economic underpinning of the South, but the region’s reliance on cotton, enabled by slave labor, is now suffering from an inability…
In the pages of the current edition of the Tennessee Baptist, readers learn of a proposal advocating new uniforms for the students of Mary Sharp College, a female Baptist institution in Tennessee. A shortage of northern goods, including clothing, is already plaguing the South. But the South has plenty of cotton that can be made…