Public meeting of Methodists in north Texas protests the influence of northern abolitionist preachers in the Church

The Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was assembled in Bonham, Texas when a large and heated public meeting in the town passed several resolutions against what they saw as the continued anti-slavery influence in Texas of the Northern Conferences of the Methodist Church.  The meeting considered the continued presence of preachers from northern conferences as an insult. (By John Osborne)
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Michael Montgomery Fisher, John Jay Rice, History of Westminster College, 1851-1903 (Columbia, MO: E. W. Stephens, 1903), 40.

Alexander Campbell (Congressional Biographical Directory)

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"Campbell, Alexander," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000075.
CAMPBELL, Alexander, a Representative from Illinois; born on a farm near Concord, Franklin County, Pa., October 4, 1814; attended the public schools; became a clerk in an iron works and was subsequently promoted to superintendent, continuing in the business of managing iron works in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Missouri until 1850, when he moved to La Salle, Ill., and became interested in the coal fields; mayor of La Salle in 1852 and 1853; member of the State house of representatives in 1858 and 1859; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1862; elected as an
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
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