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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States. (search)
the senior Bishop of the Province. Mr. Hines moved to strike out this clause.--Motion carried. Bishop Elliott moved to take up the sixth clause, and stated that under this clause comes up the whole question of Church Extension. Mr. Williams, of Virginia, thought there were evils connected with Dioceses too large or too small. Thought the best plan to restore the provision of the Constitution, allowing an existing Diocese to divide on certain established conditions. Rev. Mr.l defined. Ecclesiastical limits should be coterminous with them, and great freedom within those limits. If we cannot carry out the provincial system, at least let us retain the name State, and allow the privilege to any State that can. Mr. Williams said that State in this clause means province — nothing more nor less. This would be settling everything at issue. Bishop Elliott had been convinced that the provincial feature could not be carried. --Thought the best thing they could ho
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
tional troops immediately, though the hope was held out to him that it might not be long before they would be forwarded. He sent word back to this effect to Colonel Williams and Bob Woolly, who left on Friday last to make arrangements to have them shipped. We got this from a man who was in camp, knew Williams well, and had Williams well, and had it from his own lips. A one-legged fellow by the name of Menifee, and John P. Ficklin, of Bath, are the drill Colonels. Before Williams gets back, it is understood he will have his commission as Brigadier-General of the forces — The men are represented as a motley crew, copious in blasphemy, desperate of character and fortune, rWilliams gets back, it is understood he will have his commission as Brigadier-General of the forces — The men are represented as a motley crew, copious in blasphemy, desperate of character and fortune, recklessly brave, fond of cards and whiskey, combining men of the highest intelligence with a mass of besotted ignorance, that talk about the Abolitionists waging this war to steal "our niggers," yet one half of them couldn't buy even a baby if full grown niggers were selling at ten cents a dozen.--Judge Moore, of this town, and th