. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time. few %. BISHOP JOHN EARLY. CONFERENCES OF 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857. 209 The Conference elected as -delegates to the ensuingGeneral Conference, to meet in Nashville, Tenn., thefollowing men: E. F. Sevier, William Hicks, T. , E. E. Wiley, James Atkins, R. M. Stevens,and William Robeson. Reserves: William C. Gravesand William C. Daily. The Bishop submitted to the Conference for concur-rence or rejection a resolution adopted by the Ala-bama Conference proposing to strike out from theGeneral Rules the rule on slave
. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time. few %. BISHOP JOHN EARLY. CONFERENCES OF 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857. 209 The Conference elected as -delegates to the ensuingGeneral Conference, to meet in Nashville, Tenn., thefollowing men: E. F. Sevier, William Hicks, T. , E. E. Wiley, James Atkins, R. M. Stevens,and William Robeson. Reserves: William C. Gravesand William C. Daily. The Bishop submitted to the Conference for concur-rence or rejection a resolution adopted by the Ala-bama Conference proposing to strike out from theGeneral Rules the rule on slavery. This rule, as thereader may know, prohibited the buying or selling ofmen, worsen, and children with the intention of enslav-ing them. It was evidently leveled against the Afri-can slave -trade and not directly against the holding ofslaves or the transfer of slave property. The speak-ers in the Conference who advocated the resolutiontook the ground that, as under the laws of the UnitedStates the slave trade was piracy and prohibited assuch under heavy penalties, the rule was a d
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