Letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline to James B. Finley

Authors

L.L. Hamline

Files

Description

Bishop Hamline writes a congratulatory letter stating that the 1844 General Conference action (approval of Finley's resolution that Bishop James O. Andrew desist from exercising bishop duties until he no longer owns slaves) has quieted abolition excitement in the M.E. Church in "these northern regions where all was strife and bitterness and war to the knife." He also says that thousands of Methodists who sympathized with the Scottites (Wesleyan Methodist Church founded by Orange Scott -- primarily abolitionists) have "gone away in the other direction" (toward the MEC). Abstract Number - 802

Abstract Number

802

Publication Date

9-14-1844

City

Xenia

Keywords

Slavery Letters; Abolition; General Conference of 1844; Finley Resolution; Scottites (Wesleyan Methodist Church)

Recommended Citation

Hamline, L.L., "Letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline to James B. Finley" (1844). Finley Letters. 1306.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/finley-letters/1306