An editorial in today’s Charleston Mercury is read with approval by many white Baptists in the South Carolina city: … we have already noticed the gross ignorance of the people of the North in regard to the true principles of republican government. Having no adequate conception of those wise and needful restrictions upon absolute power,…
This month James Stokes Dickerson, well-known Baptist editor, assumes his first pastorate at the Second Baptist Church of Wilmington, Delaware. Prior to this time, Dickerson served as an editor of New York Baptists’ “Recorder,” the American Baptist Publication Society, and Philadelphia’s “Christian Chronicle.” After his tenure in Delaware, Dickerson would also pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…
Today’s New York Herald publishes an editorial from a pro-slavery advocate who does not mince words about the evils of abolitionism: “For the first time in the history of the country, abolitionism pure and simple has found an honorable recognition at the hands of the administration. The abolitionists of the North – the enemies of…