Monday, April 18, 2011

1861 April 18 Retreat Church, Pickens, S.C.

Minutes of the Presbytery of South Carolina Spring Session

Whereas the President of the United States has declared the
Confederate States to be in a state of insurrection, and has
called for an army of seventy-five thousand men to aid the
regular army inquelling this pretended insurrection, and has
collected a large fleet to make a descent upon our coast, thereby
inaugurating civil war, therefore

Resolved that it is inexpedient to appoint any of our mem-
bers to represent this Presbytery in the General Assembly,
about to convene in Philadelpia, in the midst of the enemies
of our peace and of our rights.

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