The Confederate States’ convention continues today in Montgomery, Alabama, as delegates work on establishing the legal principles that will under gird the new nation. In Georgia, the Milledgeville Southern Federal Union publishes Georgia’s causes of secession, as approved by the state’s secession convention on January 29. The preservation of African (black) slavery is identified as…
To date, seven southern states have seceded from the union: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Dozens of Baptists have played significant roles in events thus far, including as governors of two of the seven seceding states: Georgia (Joseph Brown, secessionist) and Texas (Sam Houston, Unionist). In addition, many Southern and Primitive…
Expectation is in the air throughout the South. In Montgomery, Alabama (illustration) delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana are preparing for tomorrow’s opening of the slaveholding states’ convention. Texas has recently joined the ranks of seceding southern states, while in Virginia candidates for delegates to the upcoming Virginia secession convention are…