U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, announced one week ago today, leads to numerous positive affirmations from Baptists of the North. This week’s resolution from the Seneca Baptist Association of New York rejoices that the U.S. is now positioning itself squarely against African slavery, declaring God’s hand upon the nation for its commitment to…
While abolitionist sentiment, having created the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and hastened the demise of the old Whig Party, is now reflected in popular Northern thought, many white Northerners remain opposed to official government efforts to put an end to African slavery. Lincoln’s reluctance to issue a formal emancipation proclamation evidences this reality. Nonetheless,…
Today, a letter from “J. J.” is published in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder, calling for righteousness on the part of Southerners in order to ensure Confederate victory in the war. The cause for which our country is now contending should inspire every person to renewed energy and fervent devotion and dependence on God and…