New-York daily tribune., 1849-06-09
sanctfry and Rankrupfry.

Rev g. w DOAsE, Protestant Episcopal DISH
op OF New.Jersey, is currently reported to nave
failed n meet his pecsniary engagements o"lns
some s25O, 900. although enjoying for many years
past al income Of come $4,000 from MS vile
property, which il settled upon her and oi course
remains unaffected by her husbands bankruptcy
An stt.rnn, was made in the recent Episcopal
Convention Of his Diocese 70 institute an inVesu-
CATION into the matter, but put down oy al over
wbelroing negative. Tie Trenton STATE GGte'ie
observes that the mover Of the inquiry was CAM
copsiterAte ard kind in bis remarks while IL de-
fep.e Of the Bishop was evinced violence OF
voice and language no, at al credltabe to the
Church or the cause. The Gazette pslliates the
temerity Of the mover OF the inquiry IN the follow
in terms:
The truth IT, every hear; was moved with true
sympathy Tor the reputation OF the bishop - ioi -r
r'.ul.rat.0n of the Church j. was eHffe7st" oi'-s
s,t ,,rvatelv that Committee of luve-teauon Wous
doubtless detect nothing beyond nc's o. inal5cI'oL
and crees.ne-s ia tie BsAops financial course ana
that be- and the Diocese together "c44 s"a'e 1o--'
mon blessing in the invcsugston
or the character or causes Of Bishop Doane'
indebtedness ~ know nothing, aud therefore *
press no opinion. Many thoroughly upleh'
man has been deeper and more hoPelessy Ia deot
without the means Of paying the hrst iarthins'-
Yet the refusal of investigation IN tils case was
grossly wrong and the m aly -mouthed language
Of the Gazette above quoted Is hardly more e1cu-
sable. The notorious facts il the Bishop = case
raise a very strong presumption Of extravsgance
and recklessness on bis part hardly compatible
with honesty, and not At all with those quantities
essential to the proper iullment OF hls most re-
snoos;ble duties How came be Involved In debt
n ANYTHING like tn extent Of Quarter OF a Nil
lion Of dollars We DO not hear that he has IN
volved himself so deeply by endorsing for others
or by vast uncalculatirg benevolence II Is
well worth considering whether he had any moral
right 20 run in debt to that extent at all. we
never heard Of case IN which investigation
was more urgently demanded.
LISA lamentabie truth that the popular morality
with regard to Debt and Non.Payment is dis
gracefully lax in this Christian land We have
become so habituated to look 10 the Law Ter the
collection Of debts that most men have no idea OF
any pressing obligation to pay debt other than
the legal obligation We understand that man
who cant pay is not culp pabe IN negecting to pay,
but our can't has very slippery significance
| MANY man cant pay thepechancs and mer-
! Cndf Us WuOul ne oN tsi sun p'J DtNoN9S ~
travaganty, hiring servants TO do the WORK which
belongs TO his sons and daughters-because he
/ lives in a more expensive house and spends more
money for food, clothing, &c than he has any moral
right thus TO dispose Of. Many man cant pay
because he does not half work, nor exert himself
near 50 much to get out Of deut as he did to get
H. The man who cant pay an honest debt has
no ght to indulge in luxuries-keeP his sons at
college nor his daughters at the piano. II he thus
lives M the rate Of three or four thousand dollars
year while the frugal and industrious lmportune
him for what is their honest due he is an outright
swind'er, no matter how high the circle he moves
in nor how many churches he belongs to- These
be truths very obvious indeed, but apt to be for
gotten and we think the Gazette's paragraph
| calculated to obscure them