Note 15 — Chapter XI · American Churches and Slavery. THE POSITION THEY OCCUPY.

Note. One little circumstance, which occurred in the General Assembly of 1853, indicates a remarkably conservative spirit in that body. Dr. Judd, in writing the history of the division of the Old and New-Schools, put in one chapter on slavery. This chapter made the book offensive to the south. To reconcile all parties, it was agreed that two editions of the work be printed, one for northern, the other for southern circulation—the latter to be minus the chapter on slavery!