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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Secession of the Southern Episcopalians. (search)
siana, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee from the United States, and the formation by them of a new Government, called the Confederate States of America, renders it necessary and expedient that the Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church within those States should form among themselves an independent organization. Resolved, 2d. That as preliminary to the organization declared necessary in the foregoing resolution, a committee of three Bishops, three presbyters and three Laymen, be appointed by this Convention to propose and report to an adjourned meeting of the Convention, to be held at Columbia, S. C., on the third Wednesday of October next, a Constitution and Canons, under which such an organization may be effected; and that the ecclesiastical authorities of all the Dioceses within the Confederate States, not now represented in this Convention be invited by the Right Rev. President to take the requisite steps for the representation of said Dioceses at the adjourned Convention.
ould never submit to the rule of Lincolnism, this Message would suffice. American history — even English history from the glorious dawn at Runnemede, in which we are gloriously participant, by inheritance, and should be in principles and institutions — has been written in vain, if any portion of American States, or peoples, can quietly succumb under the interpretation and application of constitutional law and Executive powers given by Abraham Lincoln, Ll. D., by the visitation of Providence President of the United States, but through the merciful favor of Providence not President of the Confederate States of America, whom may God long preserve from such a rule and ruler. Give us war, famine, pestilence, desolation, death in every form and with every incident of horror, but from Lincoln and Lincolnism good Lord preserve us, as Thou has graciously delivered us. Comments of the Northern Press. The Service journals, we need hardly say, are profuse in their laudations of t