Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The Kentucky Methodists . . .

. . . in Conference assembled, have resolved that this rebellion is most wicked and ungodly, and should immediately be put down; that they heartily approve the act of the Legislature requiring ministers to take the oath of allegiance before solemnizing matrimony; and that they will not hold communion with nor recognize any preacher who is not truly loyal to the Government of the United States.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 2

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