Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln writes to abolitionist Horace Greeley, responding to Greeley’s public rebuke of the president for not doing enough to free African slaves: …I have not meant to leave any one in doubt….I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority…
Midwesterners’ loyalties are divided, the region having for years been a lightning rod as the nation fought over whether or not slavery should be allowed in the region. Anti-slavery sentiment ultimately won the political battle, but the tension in the region ultimately had contributed to the coming of war. While the state of Missouri remains…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports on the recent meeting of the Flat River Baptist Association, a body of Baptists who address the war directly (many, but not all Baptist associations of the South do so at some point during the war). Your committee on the State of the country, respectfully submit the following: The…