”The male members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Woodville, Alabama, (now called Uniontown) held a meeting July 15,1844, presided over by the Rev. Thomas J. Williamson, with J. R. John, Esq., acting as Secretary, in which they expressed their feelings and views on the proceedings of the General Conference relating to slavery. Their views on the subject were expressed by the adoption of a paper prepared and presented by G. N. Ware, R. H. Hudson, and James White. One resolution adopted is the following: ‘Resolved, That a division of the Methodist Episcopal Church is indispensably necessary and that under existing circumstances we cannot be satisfied without it, and do hereby recommend that the separation take place as soon as practicable, and that the plan of separation proposed by the Committee for this purpose, and adopted by the General Conference, is equitable, and should therefore be carried out.’ ”

Reference Data:

A History of Methodism in Alabama, by Anson West, 1803, page 644