Confederate commissioners to the United States, Martin Crawford of Georgia (illustration, a Southern Baptist) and John Forsyth of Alabama propose, to U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, a peaceful solution to the hostilities between the two nations. Basically, Crawford and Forsyth maintain the rightness of the southern “revolution” that has established an independent nation, and…
A mere twenty-four hours after Abraham Lincoln takes the U. S. presidential oath, the Confederate States of America, disdainful of the “black” U. S. president (as they call Lincoln), unveils the “Stars and Bars,” the first Confederate flag, while Texas formally accepts Confederate statehood. White Baptist reaction in the South is mixed. While Basil Manly,…
Today is Sunday, and U. S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln, en route to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration, attends church services in Buffalo, New York. The New York Herald reports on the event: “Mr. Fillmore called at ten A.M. with a carriage for Mr. Lincoln and both attended divine service at the Unitarian church. Dr. Hosmer,…