The Presbyterian General Assembly.
Syracuse, Friday, May 24."The assembly has discussed the Home Missionary plan two days, and will, doubtless, adopt it substantially as reported.
The remaining business will then be soon finished.
The best feeling prevails."
Sadly, many Presbyterians of the time were utterly confused about the Bible's condemnations of slavery
for God's people and so broke away to form their own pro-slavery United Synod of the Presbyterian Church.
This brief report from Syracuse, NY, covers an assembly of Northern Presbyterians where "the best feeling prevails."
Work on their Home Missionary plan will have an important consequence in my family's history.