Today Frederic Bates of Pennsylvania writes a letter to U. S. President Abraham Lincoln: Titusville Pa Nov 10/63 Dear Sir On the 23d of July last I left Macon Geo. with my wife & child for Vermont My Native State Had been a resident of the South eight years. While travelling from Macon to Atlanta…
On this Sunday in Washington, D.C., U.S. President Abraham Lincoln poses for a new photograph. The president’s Gettysburg Address is merely one week distant. The growing toll of death weighs heavily upon the man. In California, a fire ravages Nevada City. Fires are a frequent occurrence in western towns due to the predominance of wooden…
Today’s edition of the South Carolina Confederate Baptist weighs in on two hot issues: slavery and church state separation. Of the former, most white Baptists of the South are largely in agreement that African slavery is God’s will and that blacks are intellectually incapable of handling freedom. The editor of the Confederate Baptist summarizes these…