A HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS PROSCRIPTION, THE SEIZURE OF CHURCHES, AND PEL, IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI DURING THE LATE CIVIL WAR AND UNDER THE "Test Oath" of the New Constitution. BY REV. W. M. LEFTWICH, D. D. VOLUME II. "The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church." SAINT LOUIS : SOUTHWESTERN BOOK AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, 1870. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by W. M. LEFTWICH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. DEDICATION. TO THE MARTYRS OF MISSOURI, REVS. JAMES FEWELL, GREEN WOODS, NATHANIEL Wollard, THOMAS GLANVILLE, ISAAC FRAZEE, GEORGE L. SEXTON, AUGUSTUS H. F. PAYNE, EDWIN ROBINSON, Wм. POLK, JOHN L. WOOD, THOMAS JOHNSON, SAM'L B. MCPHEETERS, GEO. P. KIN NAIRD AND SAM'L S. HEADLEE: And to the principles of religious liberty for which the Christian Ministers of Missouri have so long and so severely suffered, and which they have so heroically and sublimely vindicated, this work is affectionately and devoutly dedicated BY THE AUTHOR. |