The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1845, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. Vols Xi, Ho at—wate Ho. 308 NEW YORK, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1845. nines se Lec siinmeter 0 oc tote lyg i psa ne IE ELS LORIE EI CRANE AR RR ice YEE, Se 0 ec RS ON Bishop Onderdonk’s Statement. as its visitors. It had been told oe aay or two ches " 0] movements of the two clergymen and three laymen of — The greater number of the specifications are un- appearance, a friendly visit, having no special busi- It is confidently left to men of sound senge and before, on the authority, I think, of Bis yp Otey, | whom you speak, and of others prompted by them; and rted in th lied fe ny official etiquette, | Christian principle, to say how far the claim of that the three Bishops would probably ceme to a | especially the and efforts for obtaining the presence be gig be presentment by other affidavits | ness in view, not called for by any official etiquette, ciple, to say, i im of e thr rt f them, it | and therefo rfectly voluntary. It was, | confess, | these oaths to implicit confidence is thus qualified. A STATEMENT determination on Friday, Nov. Ist. I afterwai tit services of the Ite. James C. Richmond, a brother | i, "believed, had es Ufidavit rena in ie ap: ' very grateful | ae! as proof that his friendly feel- | I request those who may peruse the evidence to who, for whatever erroneous course he may pursue, is probably more entitled to pity than blame; and who, I may observe here, not a month befere the meeting of the Convention, had called on me, and expressed a warm desire to return to my diocese, that he might stand by me in my troubles, and be my friend. Whether, hew- ever, they who make use of such a one are eqitally ex- empt from blame, I leave to sound principle end correct feeling to determine. In what I say of not being allowed to see statements made against me, I frankly confess that Ido refer, in part, to Bishop Elliott. He had the papers. He knew I wished to see them. He knew I asked to sce them. He knew I desired an interview with him respecting them. He re- fused both to let me see them, and to converse with me sbout them. 1 consider what was at length done in read ing them to some of my friends by no means an equiva- lent to the act of justice and brotherly regard which I asked. Tt was yielded, as I was told, not without difticul- ty. The like was refused to others of my friends who earnestly sought it; and in the measure and mode in which it was conceded, I was not allowed the common justice of selecting the friends to whom that would be ranted asa boon which was equitably due. I haveno fault to find with the choice which was made; but I con- or pasha Seone Biekee ets as the result of 3 cane on wil em, that a presentment 'O- FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES | babiy be made on Pridey ofereanent would pr CONNECTED WITH THE RECENT ie oer Same t0 my eowadae that melee ms—Mr. John Jay, of this city, and Mr. C. G. Trial of the Bishop of New York, | Memminger, of Charleston, S. o. then in this city, ls drmcaeepreep named—were Boing poet inves- i Tumors against me, and for that purpose Statement of Facts, de, calling on families where they had reason Yo ope On the first day of last October, I left home for | they might hear something to my disadvantage. the city of Philadelphia, to attend to my duties ag | The three Bishops, meanwhile, waiting in readi- Peenbes of our General Ecclesiastical Conver. | 2¢89 to receive anything which might thus be tion, which was to meet in that city. The Con. | brought to them. vention of my own diocese had just closed its an- | The expected Friday and Saturday passed with- nual session. It had been unusually large, and dis- | OU my receiving a presentment. On Sunday, Nov. tinguished by a very marked degree of unity and | 34, Bishop Kemper told me that he had, a day or harmony. The circumstances under which it as- | ‘Wo before, spoken to the Senior Bishop on the sembled were such as to render its proceedings a | SUbject; who told him that he had notified the very special proof of the kindest feelings of con- | the three Bishops that he should leave town the fidence and sffection on the part of the clergy and | following Tuesday, previously to which he would laity of the diocese toward their Bishop. Tiers. | be in readiness to’ receive any communication ports laid before it, and there made to me, gave | from them. On Monday 4th, Bishop Kemper told port. ings were entirely restored. give heed also to the following extracts trom a let- Jntemperance wasone of the immoralities with Among the evidences of conduct towards me, | ter, written under date of December 27, 1844, to a which it was stated by the ostensible movers in| on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Beare, inconsistent | clerical brother, by the Re . Henry Gregory, the this matter, in Philadelphia, I was charged by ru- | with the idea of their having had their feelings | present Rector of St. Paul’s Church, Syracuse, a mor. Ail that the presenters could find available wounded by me, prominence is given in the evi- | clergyman whose name, with ell who kaow him on this subject, was an allegation of my having | dence, to an invitation to dine with them, and its | 1s synonymous with the, best official and personal been under the influence of vinous or spiritous | being urged notwithstanding an invitation for me | qualifications for the holy mioistry. He had made liquor, on one occasion, more than seven years | to dine, on the same day, with an highly valued | enquiries of parishioners who were intimate with before. How fairly the verdict of guilty was sus- | friend, in whose family | had repeatedly been a | Mr. and Mrs. Butler, and after stating the fact that tained by the evidence, will appear when that is | kindly received, a hogpitably entertained, and cer- | she, Mrs. Butler, was ** not well at that time,” the made alba: The charging of an insulated act so | tainly a happy guest. The fact of my having had | time of her going to Ithaca—(a fact of which the many years before, certainly looks very like a re- | this latter invitation seemed, by their testimony, | readers of the evidence will not fail to see the solution and endeavor to blacken my character as | to have been strangely forgotten by Mr. and Mrs. | connection with a pretence, therein set forth, of much as possible. Beare. The readers of the evidence, however, will | sickness as the consegpence of her journey from {i appears by the presentment, as I have before | have no doubt that it was given, and was known | Ithaca,)—he writes lows :— observed, that notwithstanding the prying and un- | by them to have been so. | 4 2 “ After their arrival here”—at Syracuse on their return tiring vigilance of my enemies, the presenters could Additional evidence on this subject might have | to Ithica—Mra: Cooke saw Mrs. Butler, and heard her lay nothing to my charge alleged to have occurred | been brought before the court. I yielded, how- | speak of the journey and the Bishop. She spoke particu- within a less period than neatly two years and aj ever, to the suggestion that the testimony of any of | larl, ane the kindness of the Bishop to her, and said she half last Lae my ove family matt be upp tated obiserianehis. pte lec igher ed rane ne Varta With regard to the specifications generally, two | Appealing now to those whose heads and hearts » xen L azn remarks nee be made. . ve will not suffer them to admit the objection, I heai- | S?° word did she say to Mrs. Cooke, (an intimate friend,) q qt a ; n n c ‘ i t f any impropriety in the Bishop. strong evidence of the divine goodness in blessing | Me that he had on that aay seen Bishop Otey, | tend that the choice should have been my own. In this | 7°} "ph, assigned t ds of ti dis- | tate not to give the affidavit of myson. ‘It is as | “uv chi i cia i In | who told him that the next da easight or ing of th 4 . ey are igned to periods of time so dis- rt ir. Peck’s* mother-i w (Mrs. Griffing, who is ee soneae yin eine Measure of spiritual and o'clock A.M., had been fixed vs Neb ybth OT tions brought agcinet me aud ee to gather a | taut asto place the defence under. peculiar disad. | follows: well acquainted with the Bishop) is eue of the communi- vantages—a circumstance which, if I understand | “cry Couwry or New York, ss.: cants in this church, and is now bere. Her daughter right, lies at the foundation of the just and righte- “Henry M. ‘Ondesdoulk, of city of New York, being | (Mrs. Peck) isdead. called on her to-day. She recol- 4 i iimitedi a thet on Mondey, the | lected the fact well, that Mr. Peck was driver on that oc- ous principle that'gave rise to statutes of limitation. | duly sworn, doth say, on Monday, ey ‘asked her if either ty ‘Mrs. Peck ‘Tie delay in seeking redress was needless, an | Sth day of Megha eatin Tan Gates I wean, | saytuiog about any ligpeopeiety ta ius ishop's Coudeet ome peepanical provision for it had all the while Restor of Zion's Cae Lite Nook, Long Island came during thar _ ie Nbthlog,” the mada, “| oa she = 2. The matters charged were such as, in their pice a pene fe tanbe ra following circumstances and con- | observing things; hade nice sense of propriety, ‘and wes very nature, to preclude direct counter-testimony. } versation occurred : accustomed to speak freely of thin; his wife and to The defence is necessarily confined to circum-| The said Henry M. Beare, after being in the said store | her, when he came home. That efter his return from stantial evidence, going to prove the improbability | afew minutes, asked deponent if he were Bishop Onder- | Ithaca, he spoke of the nice big ride they had, and or impossibilit; of the charges, or defect in the | donk’s nephew, and upon being answered in the nega- | peter r ed of the Bishop’s Kind attentions to Mrs. But- credibility of the witnesses. tive, and told that deponent was Bishop Onderdonk’s son, | ler, as Lea cet ae 8 eats SaiBiog fosla ve- My plea of not guilty was made with a good | the said Henry M. Beare extended his hand in a fmendly | Ty cont noel oe Kaew r. rhe ron riage leel anything conscience, and is still sacredly adhered to * For | ®%4.cordial manner, and inquired particularly after depo; | TAS, 00 Rat eee ee edith of October Leet hs ibe ineritioabi aa Snipes vipeal ro the) astinieay, ast neh pelected sons books, imquiting et the. aume time how | Wrote to Mrs. Gufting that he expected that day to start” 1s to be laid before the church. Justice to myself, } deponent’s business succeeded A reply having been | Respecting this letter of Mr. Gregory, Bi however, requiresthat 1 add thereto a few state- | made, thesaid Henry M. Beare remarked that deponent’s | [veg ee i me his recollection Det eee ments and considerations. { will take up the) success was certain, as deponent’s father had a numerous | 1 gave to him in Philadelphia, of this ride to Sara- Articles of the presentment in reversed order, be- | circle ot friends, and thereupon promised to give depo- | o1.6 “a ceorded exactly, in all’ material points, with ginning with the seventh and eighth, which are | nent the benefit of whatever business he, the sald Beare, ) trot» Crtatned in the vets area easentially one. | ‘ {ti ht that Ih t Mr. Butler i a i ‘he said Henry M. Beare then entered into a general tis nmght that ere correct Mr. Butler in a mat. sci for the pronecution ‘pont suprosed. cameron | couvermen wilt depanent. tn the conre of wich he | ter entirely relevant tothe main point, in which ie wcy | made mention of the difficulties he to contend wit ie betrayed his desire to wound and injure me as pe Be cted ees eee sees noe perish, in consequence of thi eck, oe eeapeey and | much as possible. The reader of hinewidenne will r i n refinement among his parishioners, and of its acon- | § erei i % who stated their want of precise recollection of } tinued source oteauevanes te him, by Jeavin; his. with- find a reference therein to circumstances connect “ ed with his ordination as Priest, directly calcula- circumstances occurring so long ago,and rather on j out any society congenialto his taste. He also referred ted di ‘nial obea ¥ d their inferences than on arecollection of words.— | to the pleasure derived from occasional visits of acquain- | {©0 10 Prijucice my nick f MaGT. proces On this subject I submit, as the true one, the fol- | tances trom the city, and eee oeier eee By, pana ot hate tee ey i : visit to his parish at the time of his ordination. He also UF sot dntiaiel SAS Ifwhile } stated that eens father had dined with him st that | efforts to accommodate and favor others have been agraeee wee te aen peleppe re bert Vou time, and that he bad with diffculty permaded him (de- | returned by ingratitude. 6 < t's father) todo so on account of aprevious invita | In t! thi ination. H affectionate attachment than usually exists between | on piven and accepted to dine elsewhere’ and referred to stilt eared the a ORT es pe dipoese Bishops as et cousin ee ate na mowers hac cts satielection and pleasure. Fac Onondaga county were not, that year, to be visited frequent. e is the son of anold and value ‘len len! M. Beare remained in deponent’s store from ; vd > oe of ‘mine long since deceased. His widowed mother oneal to ae coer of an how, Ciera —_ ene haere airy sed faa pereeed a i8i i ooks, among which was a sermon written leponent’s ~aore > 7 made me repeated visits to thank me for my in- lather, and ne leaving, shook hands and tendered the | eral appointment for Syracuse, naming the 24th of terest in her son, and to commend him to my con- 4 M he d, 0 ‘ taued lways adding ranceés of his filial hospitalities ot his home on Long Islend to deponent, and | Muy as the day. On that day, accordingly, I was tinued care, alway: asst S desired to be remembered to deponent’s !ather. in the parish. Unfortunately, the necessary love and confidence towards me. His settlement } Deponent further saith, thet inifabout three or four | from the Standin Committee had not* arrived. t Little Neck was the reeult of ments i i th tke vl atLittle Neel é arrangements | weeks after the said fifth of August, the said Henry M. | The ordination, therefore, could not take place. made by me; and I gave him letters which secur- | Beare, again came into deponent’s store, inquiring as be | ‘This was a great disappointment; it being much ed him ihe rocaree Ge sonst of the neigh- Bean aha nie thant tot ocaerubre desired by Mr. Butler al his people that he should boring. ol ory Four Reverend brethren enix | davitwas, to the best of his knowledge end belief, com. | be ordained there. Anxious to accommodate them the evi han the feel everen aed Tt and in- | ssunicated to his father, before he heard or knew of any | { made another appointment for June 2d, although formed that ¢ eects of Mr. and. Mrs. Beare | diticulty or difference ‘between him and the said Henry | I knew that I could meet it only by very special had been wounded by me, my conscience acquit- | i, Beare, and that it wes made voluntarily, and without | and wearisome exertion. I expressed, however, knowledge of them trom the impressions made on, and the recollections had by, friends not of my own choosing, Mr. Trapier, and those associated with him, are connect- ed in my mind with Bishop Elliott; and | am not aware in what exact measure they are respectively to be held responsible. ‘our view of the opinion expressed by the Bishops, touching the true character and relations of presenters, is, according to my recollection, not strictly accurate. It appears to m: enerally understood that pre- senting Bishops sustained a position differing in many im- portant respects from Preecaters or prosecutors in civil crcriminal courts. While their relation to the church is that of jealous guardians of its purity, good repute, and interests, they should also sustain to the accused the re. lation of friend and brother, bound to him by very near sympathies, and acting asa shield and defence for him against the malice of the world, and the persecutions of public rumor and accusation. Hence I certainly gathered it to be the general opinion of the Bishops, that the fra- ternal relations between the accused and those who may move in the matter of his preecoent, were not to be sacrificed; but that he should expect, and they should concede, all opportunity on his part to place his explane- tions and counter-statements inthe opposite scule (0 that in which the assertions of his accusers were cast, for such consideration as to those his Sabena brethren may seem right in the full acting out of their solemn obligation s0 to minister discipline as not to forget mercy, and be so merciful as not to be too remiss. It is a matter of unfeigned surprise to me, that in your enumeration of the opinions of the Bishops, relative to the character, relations, and duties of presenters, you should have omitted an item of very great importance, included in Bishop Elliott’s able and clear remarks on the subject. [allude to malicious motive. He emphatically stated this as a matter to be looked into belore any Bishops should consent to be presenters. I have heard it spoken of by brother Bishops as evidence ot his high, honorable, and just principles and views. How could you have omitted it? It necessarily supposes an opportunity to the accused of being heard In the present case, brethren, if the opportunity were iven which Bishop Elliott's repeated pledgo was justly leemed to secure, I assume that a clear case of malicious motive may be made out; that other views than regard for the purity of the church may be shown as lying at the foundation of this movement; and that a well defined conspiracy, not, it is to be feared, falling short of our own house in its comprehensiveness, may be made manifest. Your expressions, brethren, of kindness and friendship, are very well. There are a practical ext-nt and opera- Rejoicing in the consolation and encow t | bringing the matter to an issue. On the evening thus afforded, [ repaired to the General Conven- | ofthat day, at about10 o'clock, I received the fol tion, and gave myself to its duties in a spirit of | owing letter from the three Bishops:— humble and grateful devotion to the Church. Soon, ‘New Yonx, Nov, 5, 1844. however, it became manifest, from the deportment | Rout Revenenp anv Dean Baotnen,— : of several of my Right Reverend brethren, that ae Prrcematiosiot the painful charges, which they had somewhat against me. They aid nothing. | Conduct, a short pastoral addons the oh ot ore Not a word did I hear of any rumors or accusa- | of your ‘diocese, = been pone ete . fuck: | r4 tions against me ; not a word of a brother’s anxiety | suppose that notwithstanding the -clear definition ‘of the to be set right; not a word of fraternal warning, pops in which we now stand io relation to ‘Yourself, caution, or admonition. Cold, repulsive, discou- | made jn your presence in the House of Bishops, ‘you mis teous manner told a dark and uncertain tale on | understand that position, and assume it to be connected brdead shriation Converse might and should have | with persons and circumstances with which it has no rown ij Y Some six or seven days after the opening of the | 4,7 82te charges, you. may remember, were laid betore Convention, when the. House of ishone were pal reps oh vee sono de nares nica about coming to order, Bishop Meade roached | respectable ayer of the Church, and all holdige the me, and paces ee te had baler easy the responsible eae of Troaters ef the General ‘Theoltgical rise, an ed w inary. Of tl mo! t Bade the suggestion. He said he could ff solemuly charged by the Diocese of Bouth Gavoline to in- the reasons, but again urged me to abeent | vestigate rumors affecting the welfare of the Seminary; . On my repeating my surprise at a propo- | 824, in the course of that investigation, these c! ipo dark and suspicious, and so little com- | *8ainst your moral parity had come before t with the courtesy of a gentleman, the duty | Sf ig te as tao before the Hosea Bisko 4 i. end and brother, and the proprieties of @ | tors of the Seminary. You may remember likterise, thet i Be said st i Bi jepenmned fn the Hols upon the a PeRTRACe sof that memorial, an excited discus- i 5 incre’ Ty | sion was likely to arise res; the rig , and 1 demanded of him his reasons for to receive sucha paper coming inaugh & Matern ea procedure. He hesitated about giving | °f ws, your brethren, and it your presence, submitted explanation. I warmly expostulated With hiss | certain questions defermining the position of ony threo the injusticé and the wickedness of the course Biheps se mies ere ee oer aent fae charkes As pursuing: At length, as if reluctantly com- | whole day, during which the propositions of the Siahon jhe said that there were reports untavorable | of Western New York, respecting. alterations in the Con- f character, respecting which he wished to | stitution of the Foreign and Domestic Missionary Socie- counsel of the Bishops. I felt what I | ty, were discussed; and upen the next morning a full just indignation, and expressed myself to | and free discussion was had in your presence, you your- ect:—Now my course is clear. I will not | self taking in the conversation, in which these points will remain at my post. If any man has | Were considered as combining the views of the House of me, let him look me in the face and | Pithone. | a. i . ry i shops presentin; ied vet Ht jat itis. Talso spoke strongly of his un-| much ion of a grand Jury, whe fe ‘tat one }*’ worthy design of inducing me to withdraw, that | that idence submitted to them was such as to make he might, in my absence, make my character and | out a prima facie case against the accused. condact the subject of discussion in the House of | 2. ‘That these Bishops should not be considered’ justi- hops. He Reeedectiet in the House of Bishops, | fiable im presentio except upon the testimony of respon- at before the Bishops informally! This unholy | sible persons, delivered before themselves personally, or evasion was the subject of severe remarks, but 1 duly witnessed before some civil magistrate qualified to trust not more severe than it deserved. Iasked | *dminister an oath. top, however: in these virtues enforced by sound morals | ted me of all just cause for censure, and I was hurt | a request iro whatsoever illi ich I si i 2 7 2 f ‘d ‘Christian’ principle, whic! ire. eavaatht a request from any person joever, the willingness, which I sincerely felt, to sacrifice what were the charges against me. He said he he cry okay free peg pega Leet, than words as evidence of the trath and sincerity-of the | at the allegation. Meee ace ’s account of the HENRY M. ONDERDONK. | all personal considerations to an object which I ‘was not at liberty to tell j and there our conversa- | time not berred by an equitable statute of limitations profession of them. Now, what evidence have I had in | particulars, as derived from Mr. Beare, was a very | Sworn before me, the 2d day of January, 1845. thought desirable in itself,and gratifying toa young tion ended. This was all I ever heard from this} Under these circumstances, and with these views, Teference to yourselves? For the last few days of my | confused and indistinct one. It rather hinted at James, P. Howanp, Commissioner of Deeds. brother, and his pariah,whom Frelt ieee rhs iin brother of his haviag aught inst me until he | as your brethren, and with the purpose of shielding was about to become one of my presenters for | from rumors which were deeply affecting your cl trials -.Yet I have good evidence that Bishop | 804 preventing a public exposure of you nen ‘parte Meade hed, for years, been speaking against me, ‘evidence,as well as forthe protection of the Hopse of and contributing towardg public rumor to my pre- | Bishops egainst the imputation ef refusing to continuance in Philadelphia, the conduet of each of you tewards me was the reverse of fraternal, friendly, or courteous ; and any thing but indicative of your being governed by the essentially just maxim of esteeming a man innecent until he is proved guilty. It was very ob than described them. It conveyed to my mind From the above it appears that Mr. Beare not dingly, hi dt however, enough to satiefy me that there ad been | oni wnew of my arevioes invitetsom ur wie else wccediug ight Leveling etter Paces great exaggeration on the part of Mrs. Beare, or | gratified at my having, notwithstanding, accepted | Syracuse, at about ten o'clock, on the morning of great misapprehension on his. I adverted to the | his. The bearing of all this on the credibility of | June 2d.’ The hour of eleven had been appointed favorable position of one thusaccused, inasmuch | hj i it fidently lett to th bo ‘ges f its body, been vious that you had ged my ease, and secretl: bey Hi 9 3 j his testimony against me, is confidently lett to the | for the service. There was, therefore, but one hour judice. H " fhe faint ition which we now | coma ie rolagon tm | nounced me guilty.” ‘Ol Bishop Elliot i Sought a brother- | &8 the very nature of the picaston precluded di- | intelligent and christian-minded readers of that | for all the needed personal and other preparations After some time, Bishop Mende came to. me | yourself, We con usnuce you that we Pave nond other | ly interview, which he denied me. Since your arrival in | fect counter-testimony, other than the asseveration | testimony. for the expected solemnity. The examination of again, and said in substance—You were right. I | than thekindest feelings towards you as aman, will have nothing mere to do with the matter. | in God that you will be enabled to answer to the They must attend to their own business. These | tion of the House of Bishops the charges which last words satisfied me that he had been acting in | feel beund, as things now appear. to present agai concert with others. And when we consider the | to the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. darkness and secrecy with which he acted his part, | _ From you pastoral, you seem to labor under agother is city, net one of you has been nearme. Ycu have been among my people, preached to them, to a certain extent cafe their money for your dioceses ; used the sanction which myself gave yeu for doing so ; and yet not Sie me the ordinery official courtesy of a call at my residence. You have had your ears open to all the gossip of one interested party against that of another. I] The next specifications againet me, in the retro- | the candidate was yet to be held. [ expresse expressed, however, my desire to see Mr. Beare, } grade order of time, are those numbered V and | the clergy present pb. great Gauhcattatmion and my confidence that I could satisfy him that | V1 in the presentment. ‘The circumstances are al- | ing the emergency, that the young brother to be or- there must be misapprehension. This interview } Jeged to have occurred in the same family and on | dained had, within less than a year, completed an then closed with the understanding that Mr. Beare | the same day, more than three years and a half | extended and satisfactory course of preparation fer was to callonme the next day. The account,con- | ago. Here, too, the parties claiming to have been | the ministry, under my constant supervision as @ 4 misapprehension, whi and scandal which men reducing themselves to the low F ~ 3 ; = n u t f how conan honorable and christian man thiak | tty there has ee ay area crete a ron coset talesmers abs yatdecr cieba evenroctend neabd und indistinct as 1 have said, given by Dr | aggrieved, acted towards me, at subsequent pe- | Professor in the General Theological Seminary of atherwise thin that fe was connected with a con- | hunting after evidence et our part. Every paper recel. { together for the use ol my inveterate enemies It being | Muhlenberg, of the uileged particulars, was all I riods, as it appeared by the evidence, in a manner | our Church, of which he had been admitied tothe spiracy ag: 4 ‘us in Philadelphia was Fen ly and freely read by | thus known that there were bishops here who made it | ever had of them until I saw them detailed in the | which, the counsel for the prosecution being judge, | honorable rank of an alumuaus. I mentioned this st me od “On, I think, Monday, October 14th, the Pre- | ae ctour numer tc’ Bishop Iver DE, anes eke wea Bi ine soph ne bs mines in the cD Pee? Ths Eee ay Big that a Captents 0 ¢. is hand a paper, of which a ly to yourself, and with the cop’ hed been previously sent to me, directed | Promise which we now perform, that no final action to him as President, which he asked if it wae | Should be had in this case, until you and your friends had the pleasure of the House to hav ad. Ite | Dee. advised of the same. Since our arrival in New York, roort was demanded by one of ie Bishopa, we have not boen Sollectin , but receiving and sifting ishop Chase, the Presiding Bishop, said that it re- | cheer up, itiatactorily to ourselves, one af the moet dies lated to the character and conduct of the Bishop of | greeable of the charges which had been laid before us — their business to receive, examine, and sift such testimo- ny, has done more to bring public scandal on the church than all else connected with this business, and has given an intensity of malignant ¢ ffort to men desperately set upon my ruin. You heve thus been the means of crea- ting thespublic rumor which is, I understand, an assum- ed ground of action fer the defence end purifying of the church. Thus heve you contributed to make me, and through me our office, our church, and our religion, a scofting to the profane : and done not a little to aggravate preseutment. Had they been laid before me at this | was totally inconsistent with the idea of their hav: | particnlarly to the Rev. Amos Pardee, the oldest interview in the form given to them in that instru- | ing suffered indignity from me. Of the credit due | presbyter Lato to whom I looked for presenting ment, truth would have required my denial to be | to the evidence brought in support of their allega- | :he candidate, if he could conscientiously do so.— yet more positive. tons, the Church will be able to judge by its peru- | | farther reminded him that presentment was on On the following day, Mr. Beare called, accom. | sal. “Hegarding that evidence, however, I have @ | the double ground of enquiry and examination,and poe by Drs. Milnor, Muhlenberg, and Higbee. | general remark to make which will be appreciated | tat the more satislactory the enquiry, the less le was evidently in much distress on account of | by every reader who brings to the subject a proper | stringent need theexamination be. ‘Reierring also the statements which he had heard respecting me. | estimate ot the principles and requirements. of | to the urgency of the occasion, and my strong de- It has often been laid to my charge, by both friends | sound Christian morals. A defective view in a | sire to gratify Mr. Butler and his people, and far- New York, and he asked me if 1 wished to retire. | We are com jowever, to state, that enough re- | my wretchedness, and help the purpose of my enemies to | and foes, that I am too confiding, and too apt to be | witness of the awful character and obligation of | ther stating that his diaconate had b t use~ OF course, so extraordinary an inquiry, was an- | mains, as will appear from the artic ccompanying this fe E oii y add Cuviation feelings to ane what you sey swayed by the professions, sensibilities, and feel- | an oath, should, as with correctly thinking per- fully mae Nicosstallg, 1 cake him rs Mapriceding of the witnesses, the matter before swered in the negative. Earnest remonstrance | Communication, er with the na ‘was made by several of the Bishops against the pro- | t® Tender it incumbent upon us to 1 prety, ofsuch a paper having being brought into the soveeien ~~ on yep a t Seon pie tae ‘ouse, and against its being received, opened, or | ty, or else receive humbly the pusishmext which may be read ; because it was uncanonical and disorderly | meted ont to you in the premises. to att Bishop’s character under the official no- We sincerely trust that you will not misconceive our tice of his brethren, except in the mode pointed | motives, nor misunderstand our course of action. Our out by law. The ultimate result was a refusal to | desire is, we repeat it, for your seke andthe church’s receive the document, and its being returned uno- | *2ke, to bring out the truth and nothing but the truth, and ned to the persons who had presented it. [need | '° Pray you to help us in it, that your character may Paty atand before the world, es that of a Christian Bishop ardly say, that I felt myself deeply injured by the | Syoula, b.amelese an Pry Presiding Bishop in his allowing himself to an ‘We have delayed ings of others. I will not now stop to say whether, | sons, it always does, detract from his credibility. tions, but lled to leave him princi- notwithstanding the dear-bought experience which | The specifications now considered were founded } aly wie far, Baslen nad a igeere: pier eae 8 cost me, I would preter to it a cold, suspi-} on the affidavits of two sisters. The younger, | pyter, to institute such examination as their sense s, and repulsive temperament. Whether it was | Jane Rudderow, gives one of some length and mi- | of duty might require, and the present emergency You speek of having ‘been enabled to clear up satis. factorily one of the most disagreeable of the charges which had been lein before” you. What this ia, you say not. Report, before I left Philadelphia, and since T came home, has said that you were in poesession of an affidavit charging me with presence in ahouse of illfame. This report, a8 was tobe expected, spread widely. As wea algo to be expected, it swelled in character until the act was magnified into a habit. As my friends, you were bound to give me at once the name of my false aconser, that he might be summarily | eae for his villainy. Ie it possible that this is the “disagreeabls” thing to which e a weakness or not, [ frankly confess 1 was moved | nuteness. The elder, Helen, gives one occupying | allow. So much for the matter of the ordinatton, by seeing Mr. Beare thus grieved at the idea cf | but a few lines, in which she swears that every | which Mr. Butler attempted to turn to my discredit having been ill treated by myeelf. Isaw a young | word of her sister’s oath is true. Jane’s oath, how- | and injury. ; man whom 1 loved with paternal affection,in tears | ever, contained many details of which Melem does | In the present instance, too, ] never had the least because of supposed injuries inflicted by me. My | not preténd to have been an eye witness. That intimation of offence given, until last October, in own tears were drawn forth in sympathy. I gave | she should have sworn unqualifiedly to the truth of | Philadelphia ; that is, until more than seven years vent to the honest impulses of my heart in expres- | matters of which she had no personal knowledge, | since it is alleged to have been given. hi cation ‘ou so coolly advert ? sions of deep regret that I should have been the | manifests a carelessness on the subject which cer- | ‘There appears to have been, in the whole of the agent in 90 irregular and unjust a procedure, as | ascertained, satisfectorily to Lone egg pede Yad you allowed me the opportauity which Bishop | ¢casion of distress to him and his wife; but dis- | tainly detracts from the credibility of her testimo- } preparation for subjecting me to the late trial, a 4 , 5 ea i a bringing such a document into the House. sary to trouble you at allupon this painful matter. Elliott's pledge made my right, 1 might have enabled you | avowed all intention to be so, and any conduct} ny. ‘The juxta position of the two affidavits on | singular, and certainly a most unchristian effort, to On or about Thursday, Oct. 17th, I understood | And now, commending youto Gon, weremain, to clear up other charges against me. which could be justly so regarded. In reference, 1| the same sheet of paper, is among the reasons for | evade the possibility of fai ie that design, by that a number of affidavits had been procured b' Very, pecwey se ‘affectionately, The subject of your professed kind and friendly feel- alec to my denial, on the preceding day, of | receiving the two as the joint act of the sisters, @ | not allowing the chance which our Divine Lord the Rev. James G. Richmond, of Rhode Island, ‘Your n in the Kpiscopate, ings toward me is inseparably connected in my mind | what I understood to be his wife's allegations, he | view of the case which wilt not be denied to be @ provides for his followers, of avoiding public dis- injurious to my character, and were placed in the WILLIAM MEADE, D. D. ber. ‘Of Buhop Meade, Iwas asked, ae one, gum | asked me whether I meant to impeach her veraci- | true one ‘ cipline by the beneficial influence of private re- hands of Bishop Elliott. JA. (2 OTEY, ago, whether! considered him my friend. ‘The question ty. Dr. Muhlenberg had said the day before, that The moral influence, therefore, of this careless , ;,onstrance. And surely not leas singular and un- Of Mr.Richmond it isunne that saymueh. ba crepe ves pit by & gentleman who hed been in Virginie, and | Mrs. Beare had given her statement to her busband | swearing must be regarded as extending to the | christian is the disposition thus manifested, to re- while under great excitement and agitation. With | question of the credibility of both. But this is not | sigt the Saviour’s gracious purpose, in this blessed this in my mind, I replied in substance, that I did | all. A more mouraful consideration sull, is the | provision, of warding off scandal to His church.— not mean to impeach her veracity, for that, under | fact that the instrument containing these affidavits | ‘Three of the prominent. actors in this motter, the ill states of mind, imagination may often go | isin the hand-writing of a minister of the gospel, Rev. Mesers. Paul Trapier, John B. Gallagher, and eyoud reality, memory prove treacherous, and | the Rev. James O. Richmond. Of whatever de- | Clement M. Butler, had been cennected with me erroneous impressions be conveyed, or erro-| fect of moral principle or moral sensibility this by the sacred tie of Christian instructor, and Chris- Reous statements given, without any pur-| method of swearing shows to exist in them, the | tian pupils. Not one of them ever uttered to me a pose of deception. I have no hesitation in avow- | responsibility is certainly largely shared by him. werd indicative of wounded feeling, of kuowledge ing that a prominent feeling in my mind was a de- |" [ ought further to state that until my visitto Phi- | of charges against me, or of solicitude for what site to soothe my young friend, and avoid what- | ladelphia in October last, I never received by word | might be the consequence of evil report on one ever might tend to mar his happiness, and there- | or otherwise, the least intimation ef offence having who had ever treated them as a father and a friend fore to put the most favorable construction on | been given to the complaining parties in this case. | ‘The first that that father and friend knew that any what 1 knew to be his wife’s erroneous statements. | I now come to a period of more than four years, of them had aught against him, was his finding In reference to this, I added that it would be little | within which the presenters were not able to esta- them, as his formal accusers, arrayed tor bringin consolation to me to relieve my own distress by | blish any thing to my disadvantage. More than down upon him the strong arm of the Discipline of adding to that of others. I do not remember that | seven and a half years ago, the circumstances ere | (he Church. How far their conduct admits, not of his question was repeated. If it was, I answered | alleged to have occurred which are detailed in Ar- the excuse, (for there can be none,) but of the ex- it in the same way. I was moved, by seeing his | ticles I and Il of the presentment. Of the second planation, that there were malignant promptings distress, to a repetition of my regret at having | article, bringing sgeioat mis the charge—the only behind them, not yet fully brought to light, is what, been, however unconsciously and unjustly, a source | one of the kind—of having been intoxicated that in the providence of a just and righteous |, may of pain to himself and his wife. I hesitated not to | length of time ago, and drawing down upon me hereafter more clearly appear. Had they adopted ask to be forgiven for it, and assured him that the | conviction of being, on that account, guilty of im- the course which was bounden upon them as chris- moet serupulous reprd to their feelings, and en-| morality, and subjecting me to punisnment for the | tian men and christian ministers, it is morally cer- deavor to promote their happiness, should hereafter | same, Ihave before spoken. I crave an unbiased tain that they had not been guilty of inflicting such show the sincerity with which I now addressed | and just judgment of the evidence. Itie, however, wounds on the Church, and bringing such wicked him. These sentiments, perhaps repeated by me, I | perhaps, no more than an act of justice to myself scandal on its holy cause. Having been the means desired him to communicate to his wife. He said | to add, as illustrative of the opportunity there was of producing excitement against me in a distant part he was satisfied, and hoped that she would be. | for intoxication, and the probability of itsexistence, of the country, heightened and rendered efficient The visitors soon took leave, all shaking hands } that I had, on that day, in the morning, instituted py co-operation with enmity to my religious princi- with me. Rejoicing in the appearance of my | the Rector of the parish, and preached on the oc- pies, they found willing co-adjutors in the work of young friend’s having his mind relieved, and his | casion; that after diuner I had preached, adininis- stirring up strife within my own diocese. An wonted feelings of friendship for me restored, I | tered confirmation, and addressed the persons con- agent from another distant State was employed, essed his arm with my hand as he left the door | firmed; and that after this service, as soon as ar- who, loudly proclaiming his work, in domestic cir- of the room. He took the hand in his, and return- | rangements could be made, with a little delay cles, in places of public resort, among the masses ed the pressure in a manner which my heart did | owing to rain, we set out on our journey; the in- congregated in travelling vehicles, any where and not fail to appreciate. terval having been spent with one of the most every where affording a hearing ear, spread the Whatever weakness the above detail may seem | respectable famalies in Ithaca. _ i matter far and wide, and set ten thousand tongues to indicate on my part, and however the issue may | Of the subject matter of the first article, 1 ask at work to spread it {urther. The press took it up, show me to have been too confiding, what I have | an unbiassed consideration of the evidence, and even in the jowest and most malignant form an said istrue. Let it go for what of right it should, | of what I have further to add in relation to it. spirit in which that oy engime can do its insthe momentous question now at issue. “ This case also presents a painful instance of in- work. Thus was there made a public rumor to The counsel for the prosecution said emphati- | sensibility, on the part of a minister of the gospel, which, three weeks before, this diocese was an ut- cally, more than once, that if it could be made to | to the awfulness and sacredness of an oath. The ‘er stranger, and which was aseumed as ground for appear that parties, who, in this suit, complained | Rey. Clement M. Butler swears toa statement, instituting the trial, and pushing it to the convic- of having been seriously aggrieved, had since act- | drawn up with great minuteness, of circumstances tion and punishment said to be demanded by the ed towards the alleged fessor in a manner in | said to have occurred more than seven years before nus disturbed community. 1 was the victim consistent with a sense of wrong and injury done | the affidavit was made out; of the greater number — whose sacrifice was to meet the demand. them, this circumstance must go very far towards | and most important of which he had no personal | My original plea of not guilty is here solemnly casting suspicion upon their complaints, and upon | cognizanee; and with regard to which, although it renewed. It respects both the purpose of my heart the testimony brought to sustain them. The jus-| was constantly within his power, he had not re- . and the misconduct alleged. But letme not be tice of this must be obvious. It was the ground of | freshed his memory during that whole period. suspected of putting ferth any proud claim to ex much of the testimony adduced on the part of the | What was the consequence? He swore to an un- emption from frailty and sintuliness. While- defence. By that testimony it was clearly shown | truth—afterwards acknowledged by himself tobe ruth would be sacrificed did I protess con- that I had received attentions from Mr. and Mrs. | such. He swore that his wite told him what she | sciousness of having justly incurred the ver- Beare, since the alleged outrage upon their feel- | never had told him, and what never occurred; and dict which has been awarded me, God knows ings, totally inconsistent with the ground now | the point thus falsely sworn to constituted the most | chat I presume not to absence of guilt before Him, taken by them. To the evidence on this point, [| serious charge brought against me in the whole in the perpetual sinfulness of my heurt, and in daily have somewhat to add. presentment—a charge which has done me more ' jeaving undone what I ought todo, and doing what When Mr. Beare was asked asa witness at the | injury than all the rest Es together—a charge | ought not todo. And God forbid that I should trial, how soon after the circumstances alleged by | which was naturally regarded by the presenters as ot be humbled under a sense of the too successful him against me, he called on me? He said that it } giving to his affidavit its chief claim to their no- petrayments, in each of these classes of omission was a few months previous to his ordination as | tice. ‘ 2 and commission, into which i am often thrown. priest, thus naturally conveying the idea that the} But I have not yet done with this cruelly and | They are perpetual calls tor contrition, humility, visit haa a reference to that event. This is not so. | most unjustifiably false accusation. Three diffe- nd repentance. May I have grace not to sufter The subject of his ordination was introduced by | rent accounts of it are sworn to by Mr. Butler and | ‘hem—God forgive me if I am wrong in the hum- him at a later day, in a letter. first re his wife. He swears to ity in hie affidavit, as 8 | ole pope that { do not suffer them—to pass un- some three or four months after the time of the al- | fact communicated to him by his wife at the first heeded! A _ leged inault,I having been, forthe greater part of the | stopping place on our journey. Having beenaf-| It haspleased my Maker to give me—friends and intermediate period, out of the city. It was, to all | cerwards told by his wite that this was not so, for | enemies unite to tell me so—a_ heart incline the circumstance sworn to had never occurred, he | warmly to reciprocate friendly affection, to yield * [t has been rumored that in my address to the court, | swears in court that the mistake arose from some- | .oitsreality or appearance in o:hets, and to be wn- between conviction and sentenc 5, I admitted the truth of | thing his wife said to him in the carriage. She the charges. The readers of that dooument will, I think, | swears that she never eaid any thing to him of the | “siir, Peck, spoken of by Mr. Gregory asa “very res- see that this was not the case. It is Di from the kind; but that he must have derived his mistaken ,ectable man,” drove the carriage. Fis name is omitted very object of address, that it ought to have been} (4.4 {rom some gesture of hers, designed to illus- nthe presentment. It became first known to the defence framed on the supposition of the sufficiency of the evi. nother matter. when mentioned in the testimony in court. Measures dence for the verdict which had been found. | This is the lished evidence will show other incon- were immediately adopted for procuring bis attendance. amount of the alleged admission. There will also be} The published e f this ol He had left the country, and the letter of Mr. Gregory ar- found in the addyess, proof that enquiry into the evi- | gruitie also between the oaths of this clergyman | Hived too late for ny use of its contents ou the trial, dence wes only waives, not abendened. and his wife. wi a who said that his doubts on the subject were the result of what he had there heard, 1 think from the himself. Icagnot but connect this with his present ion, and articularly with his effort, at the late General Conven- ion, to get rid of me, that he might in my absence, make my character the subject of remark among my brethren. Of Bishop Otey, too, I sm compelled to sneak in this connection, though with great pain. At different times an inmate of my family, much beloved and esteemed by them, he has not now called te seeus. He hasavoided all intercourse with me. He has, as one of vou, been ac- cessible to all sorts ot stories against me, and such as he must know my enemies design to push to my ruin end degradation, and to the wretchedness and cory of my family. He can yet find it in his heart to give me no chance of explanation, and still unite im professions of brotherly regard and christian ki le Had Bishop Elliott’s pledge, brethren, been redeemed in its true spirit and meaning, I we added various considerations not unreet to ha in connection with the question 4 i vious, however, is it that your are set, and your determination formed, that I cannot but regard such con- siderations as useless. I leave the whole matter in your hands, willing to meet any investigation which you may think fit to institute. Deeply grieved at what I cannot but think the unjust and ungenerous treatment which | have received at your hands, | still beg you to be assured of the continued pray- ers for your individual welfare, and tora blessing on your official functions, of Your brother y BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK. New York, November 6, 1844, To this letter the following answer was re- ceived :— His erratic peculiarities are well known. He had | The above letter was accompanied by a docu- buta few weeks before, called onme, and express- | Ment containing—not copies of the affidavits, ed a warm desire to return to my diocese, that he | Which I had particularly desired to see, and the might be my friend and stand by me in my troubles. | Stanting of the request to see which had been gua- T have since heard of his having expressed himself | fantied by Bishop Elliott’s promise and pledge, of me in terms of hostility, forthe letter which I | but—the charges intended to be embodied in the wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury unfavora- | Presentment ; and a verbal message that they would ble to his well known project of going asa volun. | eceive any communication from me the next teer Bishop to the and also for my not sanc- | Morning at ten o’clock. ms A 4 tioning his desire to preach in one of the public This was the only redemption of Bishop Elliott’s squares in this city. He was now employed for my | repeated pledge, that before the affidavits were destruction, and told a clerical brother, the Rev. | used for the pur of presentment, any request Mr. Van Bokkelen, that his expenses were paid. _ | should be granted for my friendsand myself to eee On Tuesday, October 22d, Bishop Ives inlprnied or hear them, with opportunity of offering to the me that he had heard the affidavits read. I un- | presenters explanations er counter statements.— derstood that certain of my friends had been very | friends in this city were patiently and respectfully nt for an opportunity being allowed them and | Waiting, in sure expectation of an honorable re- me of either seeing or hearing them. This was | demption of the pledge, when I was told, at ten sternly resisted until October 22d. Then, unknown | ©’clock at night, that we were allowed until ten me, they were read to three of my friends not de- | 0’clock the next morning! I need not say how signated by myself. Here was certainly a piece of | Useless was this offer, and how utter the fallacy of at injustice, that being denied either a sight or | 82Y distinction that may be imagined between the Feering of thege affidavits, I should not even be | ending of this letter and document, and the ser- allowed to choose the friends who should hear or | Ving upon me at once of the presentment. see them in my behalf. ‘Thus it appears, that although it had been boast- From what Bishop Ives told me of his recollec- | fully vaunted, as early as about the middle of Oc- tion of the affidavits, I said at once that they con- | tober, that proof of guilt was in possession sufficient tained misrepresentations and exaggerations. | for my official destruction, and was deposited with I told Bishop Ives, moreover, that 1 was confident | Bishop Elliott, with whom Bishops Mead and Otey that if I could have a conversation with Bishop | were soon connected, yet was it not until Nov. 6th, Elliot, including an opportunity of seeing or hear- | that I was apprised of their readiness to proceed ing the affidavits, I could make such statemants | Meanwhile, if | am rightly informed Lot gained and explanations as he would see to have a just | no new affidavit, nor could aught be found a; ¢laim upon his consideration in reference to the | me fora period more recent than nearly two vy id question, whether there was ground tor present- | anda half. Ample opportunity, however, had thus ment, {asked Bishop Ives to request of Bishop | been afforded to my enemies for prosecuting their Elliott, for ms, such an interview. The request | designs. Nor was it unimproved by them. Every ‘was made and refused. The most solemn assur- | effort was made to ruin me in the estimation of «nee and pledge of honor, however, were given | the church and the world. The most baré-faced by Bishop Ethott, that he would not become a pre- | falsehoods were circulated verbally and through senter until my friends and myself should have the the press. Through the influence ef the latter, my opportunity which I asked. I complained alter- | Character and conduct were subjected to the most wards to Bishop Doane, ot what I thought the un- scurrilous abuse in all parts of the country; an evil just and ungenerous course of Bishop Elliott in re- which, it is obvious, pampering as it does the New Yoru, November 9, 1844. Riont Rev. avo Dear Baotuer :— Yours of the sixth instant, received by usen the cve- ning of the eighth, requires only a few words in reply. 'e consider the promise made by one of our num! in Philadelphia, as fulfilled in letter and in by our communication of the fifth instent. We reiterate what we stated in that communication, that we have acted throughout this whole matter, in a frank and generous manner to you and your friends, and thet there has been no secrecy, at any moment, in to our position, or the evidence received by us. 'e regret to perceive in our reply that the motives of our action are questioned ; Butin this stage of the business we deem it inconsistent with our duty to enter upen any discussion of that matter. We trust that the conduct of the trial will be such as to satisfy you that our single desire is to bring out the truth, and nothing but the truth, and settle these painfhl charges one way orthe other. As the case is now inthe hi or} of the pease hg Met we must decline any fur- ther correspondence upon these Reciprocating your prayers afd good wishes, " We roxain your brethren in the church, WILLIAM MEADE, JAMES H. OTEY, SPEPHEN ELLIOTT, JR. On the ninth of November, the presentment, sgned by the above-named Bishops, and the ca- nonical summons to attend the trial, were served upon me. ee i _ The presentment contains internal evidence of its having been the wish of the presenters not only to bring me to trial on specifications of misconduct for which I ought reasonably to be held account- able, but also to make out as bad a case as pom: ble, and to strengthen prejudice against me, hat but this last desire could have induced them to frame the ninth article! This specifies nothing. It:merely charges sundry acts of impropriety du- ring the space of the last seven years. None will deny that the promptoess with which it wasthrown out by the court, was its bounden duty, aad an act of mere justice. None appreciating th te- ous dealing which should characterize actions of this kind, will, 1 spprebiends joey such @ charge. Ro any ra ig it - have been seen to ve no other bearing than to strengthen sb a soviet the accused in the minds of his using me a sight or hearing of the charges, and | basest and most malignant, but not on that account an opportunity of explanation, Bishop Doane sym- | the least welcome, passions and affections of the pathised-with my view of the case, and promised | atural heart, it is hard and toilsome for virtue and to speak to Bishop Elliott. He did #0, and the re- | integrity to arrest. . sult was the same refusal tor the present, and the | Such was the cruel treatment to which I was same promise and pledge that my request should be | subjected by the delavs of the presenters, and the met before ae (Bishop Elliott ‘would act us a pre- | abominable practices against me which those de- senter. lays encouraged; when, as appears by the issue, { was told, further, that besides the affidavits | their work could have been as well done at least a then in hand, a large number of others would be | fortnight earlier. No one need be told how much, forthcoming by the following Friday morning, Oc- | through press and tongue, a fortnight may accom: tober 25th. calls at home rendered it neces- | plish, in the work of evil speaking, lying, and slan- sary for me to leave Philadelphia on the morning | dering, when an aggravated case is sought to be ot Thureday, 24th. In New York, Bishop Ives, | made out, and the ruin of an obnoxious individual who had come on about the same time, observed | 18 the object. : to me that I need be under no apprehension of the | , To the above letter of the three Bishops, I sent presentment Weing made without my friends and | the following reply:— myself having the desired opportunity of consi- | Totme Riout Reveagnn Bisno! dering Cie ieweie a ig by oo re earl ©! onscunen Mrape, Orey, axp Evtiotr. sho liott was in honor bound to see that such ied onporta ait short be given. ete, Scamualention of yesterday was handed to me ishop Ives left New York on Friday 25th, the nistaken pposin the day until which Bishop Elliott with whom it bed jah poet i . td e pe Lyte was now understoed Bishops Meade and Ote y and people of my ‘charge, hed any reference to were united) was to wait for the expected large ad- | yourselves. I referred te ‘what I (understood to be the dition of affidavits. On Mond th, | received a letter from Bishop Ives, dat Philadelphia | *At this time two of my presbyters called on the pre- on the 26th. The promised new affidavits had not | fenting Bushope, and remonstrated with them on the arrived. Bishop Ives had asked Bishop Elliott if | shortness of the time allowed, | Hey etered another day. a La he would be wr ling tobe apresenter. ‘That must | iy and indeed 90 incompetent even the additanaly lence yet to be luced, | time It is believed that not ingle additional affidavit = peo} solibliten les pre ening real altered. BO Eee wc maa edn a) ol J ie in the General Theological Seminary, New York, past ignorance of the particular charges had edme ition —that Ro opportunity of preparat the character by my of ‘was net thus materially