Disunion: The President and the Pastors

On Sept. 8, 1862, more than 40 ministers in Chicago signed a nine-page “Memorial of all Christian Denominations,” urging Lincoln to emancipate the slaves on moral and religious grounds, which two of them, the Rev. William W. Patton and the Rev. John Dempster, personally delivered to Lincoln five days later.

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