The item Rev. Furman is past president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, past president of the North Carolina Surgical Society, and a two-term governor of the American College of Surgeons. Qualifications for Richard Furman scholarship:. In the New Testament, the Gospel History, or representation of facts, presents us with a view correspondent with that, which is furnished by other authentic ancient histories of the state of the world at the commencement of Christianity. Teaching the Journal of American History - Organization of American Furman died in Charleston of an intestinal obstruction on August 25, 1825. But surely, in a moral and religious view of the subject, this principle is inadmissible. In 1821, Furman was one of the organizers of the South Carolina State Baptist Convention and was elected its President, serving until his death. Defending the Indefensible: Wake Forest, Baptists and the Bible Richard Furman (9 October 1755 25 August 1825) was a Baptist leader from Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Rev. That, all things considered, the Citizens of America have in general obtained the African slaves, which they possess, on principles, which can be justified; though much cruelty has indeed been exercised towards them by many, who have been concerned in the slave-trade, and by others who have held them here, as slaves in their service; for which the authors of this cruelty are accountable. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Rev. Dr. Richard Furman's exposition of the views of the Baptists, relative to the coloured population of the United States : in a communication to the governor of South-Caorlina Printed by A.E. Resides in Libertyville, IL. by Richard Furman Paperback | Cornell University Library | Pub. Richard Furman. General Court. (Fairport, N.Y.) 1880-1925, May 11, 1933, Page 6, Image 6, brought to you by Rochester Regional Library Council, and the National Digital Newspaper Program. Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. He began to exercise regularly. Then, put what theyre saying inside a set of double quotation marks. Should, however, a time arrive, when the Africans in our country might be found qualified to enjoy freedom; and, when they might obtain it in a manner consistent with the interest and peace of the community at large, the Convention would be happy in seeing them free: And so they would, in seeing the state of the poor, the ignorant and the oppressed of every description, and of every country meliorated; so that the reputed free might be free indeed, and happy. If, also, by their own confession, which has been made in manifold instances, their condition, when they have come into the hands of humane masters here, has been greatly bettered by the change; if it is, ordinarily, really better, as many assert, than that of thousands of the poorer classes in countries reputed civilized and free; and, if, in addition to all other considerations, the translation from their native country to this has been the means of their mental and religious improvement, and so of obtaining salvation, as many of themselves have joyfully and thankfully confessedthen may the just and humane master, who rules his slaves and provides for them, according to Christian principles, rest satisfied, that he is nor, in holding them, chargeable with moral evil, nor with acting, in this respect, contrary to the genius of Christianity.It appears to be equally clear, that those, who by reasoning on abstract principles, are induced to favour the scheme of general emancipation, and who ascribe their sentiments to Christianity, should be particularly careful, however benevolent their intentions may be, that they do not by a perversion of the Scriptural doctrine, through their wrong views of it, not only invade the domestic and religious peace and rights of our Citizens, on this subject; but, also by an intemperate zeal, prevent indirectly, the religious improvement of the people they design, professedly, to benefit; and, perhaps, become, evidently, the means of producing in our country, scenes of anarchy and blood; and all this in a vain attempt to bring about a state of things, which, if arrived at, would nor probably better the state of that people; which is thought, by men of observation to be generally true of the Negroes in the Northern States, who have been liberated.