Today’s edition of Harper’s Weekly summarizes South Carolina’s Constitutional Convention, which took place in the First Baptist Church of Columbia, the same site of the opening of the 1860 South Carolina Secession Convention: The South Carolina State Convention was convened in the Baptist Church at Columbia at noon September 13. The Convention consisted of 124…
In Georgia, the state’s secession convention continues under the leadership of Governor Joseph Brown, a Southern Baptist. Delegates pass a Bill of Rights for white citizens of the new Confederate state. The document both declares that Georgia is a Christian nation, and disallows a religious establishment: The prevalence of the Christian Religion among the people,…
Having seceded from the Union, Georgia’s secession convention continues as delegates draft new state documents and make plans to accept an invitation from the state of Alabama to attend a conference for all slaveholding states, slated to begin February 4th. The secession speeches, convention proceedings and ordinances of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and now…