The Georgia Secession Convention adopts a new state constitution (to be ratified by voters in July) and then adjourns. Article II, Section VII of the Constitution deals with the issue of slavery: 1. The importation or introduction of negroes from any foreign country, other than the slave-holding States or Territories of the United States of…
Alexander H. Stephens is now serving as vice-president of the Confederate States of America. Many Baptist leaders in the South publicly support Stephens, including editors of Baptist newspapers. Today, Stephens gives an impromptu speech in Savannah, Georgia in which he echoes what many Baptists have been saying for months: that slavery is the cause of…
Samuel Boykin (photo), editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, expresses the growing Christian Nationalist sentiment among Baptists and other citizens of the South: “We have declared allegiance, and which we look upon as our own of RIGHT – a heritage from the God of nations to a people that knows its rights and liberties, and…