The petition further excoriated the Northern Baptist churches for supporting abolitionism by excluding slaveholders from the church. Though it accused Evan Jones of preaching the doctrine of abolitionism, it, interestingly enough, did not call for sanctions against him. Fifty men with guns appeared to watch after Geo. Smith and Chas. Rooster to protect them, though unauthorized by law.
Times are exciting.
Our friends must work. We need not expect any quarters from our enemies. I feel that I have been deeply and grossly wronged. I was made to feel the outrage more keenly by being obliged to start and leave my house and home when my wife was so sick that she could not walk from the house to the wagon without assistance, and when she reached it, she was not able to sit up. We had repeatedly heard that I was to be waylaid when I crossed over into the state of Arkansas.