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…
The Missouri Secession Convention comes to a close, and delegates issue the following statement: “That at present there is no adequate cause to impel Missouri to dissolve her connection with the Federal Union.” While the decision is not surprising, one less border state is in play in the tug-of-war between the Union and the Confederacy,…
In Montgomery, Alabama – capitol of the new Confederate States of America – delegates to the slaveholding states’ convention unanimously agree upon the provisional constitution for the Confederate government, drafted yesterday. In addition, they vote to elect Jefferson Davis, former U. S. Senator from Mississippi, as provisional president of the Confederate States of America; his…