Finally, they were accused of attempting to break the Union by advocating in their subsidized press a scission between the North and the South.

During the Civil War the denomination escaped an actual scission by following the neutral views of Campbell, who opposed slavery, war and abolition.

He 283 feared tenfold more, with a slavish, superstitious terror, some scission in the continuity of man’s experience, some wilful illegality of nature.