The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-27

upon It, But Aer . careful examination of the whole
solemn conviction Of the conference that the interests Of
religion would would not be advanced by additional
In your pastoral address to the ministers and peo-
pie, at last session with great unanimty and
We believe. in the true spirit Of the ministers Of the
peaceful gospel Of Christ, you solemnly advised the
whole body to abstain from all abolition movements
and FRI agating the exciting subject in the church
This advice was in perfect agreement with the ndi
vidual well associated views of your superin-
tendents. But, had we differed from you in opinion
in consideration Of the age wisdom, experience and
ofcia authority Of the General Conference we should
have felt ourselves under solemn obligation GO
verned by your counsel We have endesvored, both in
Official and in private intercourse
with the preachers and members TO ncucate the sound
policy and Christian spirit Of your Pastoral Address
And affords great pleasure to be able to assure YOU
that eers in this respect have been very morally
approved and your advice cordially received and prac
caiy observed in very large majority Of the annual
conferences a. will more fully appear to you the
ful examination Of the journals Of those bodies for the
last four years But We regret that compelled to
ences in Of your Christian and pastoral
counsel and Of your best efforts to carry 1t into effect
the subject has been agtated in such forms and in such
spirit as 10 disturb the Of the church This I'M
happy agitation has not been confined to the annual
conferences but has been introduced into quarterly
and made the absorbing business OF self ere
ated bodies in the bosom Of our beloved Llop.
1T Is justly due 70 number 81 the annual confer
ences IN Which majority or very respectable mino-
that they occupy very different ground and pursue
very different course from those Of their brethren who
nave adopted ultra principles and this
Fortunate and We think Improbable controversy The
result Of action had in such the resolution
Of the view England Conference. recommending very
important change In our general rule on slavery salts
factory proof Of this fact and affords US strong and in
cressing confidence that the unity and peace Of the
church are not to be materially Affected by this exciting
subject II believed that men Of aront temperament,
whose zeal may have been in aa Of their
knowledge and discretion, have made such auyances
IN the sooution enterprise as to produce reaction.
lev preachers and members disappointed in their expec
atons and despairing Of the their cause in
the Methodist Church. have Withdrawn from our fellow
ship and connected themselves with associations more
congcnia with their views and feeings and Others in
similar circumstances may probably follow their
viii be very limited and that the great BODY 81 Metho
sts IN these states viii continue as they have been
and inseparablen
the local agitation increased in the slightest degree He
would refer TO Proof No page 49, from the address of
this happy state Of things, embracing all the essen
tal eems nts 81 the voluntary principle the ministers
dependent upon the people whom they served in the
gospel word and ordinances and the people united to
their ministers by the bonds affection and esteem tue
work OF the Lord steadily advanced extensive
fields Of labor constantly opening before u.s. the
borders of Zion greatly enlarged and thousands
and tens Of Thousands brought under divine
ence and Joined in the communion Of the church The
events Of each succeeding have afforded additional
proofs OF the soundness OF the system and Of its adap
ton to the ends for which it Designed He
therefore submitted that the first assigned by the
minority rendering the separation necessary was to-
tally unsupported by the facts of the Counsel
holding slaves he tried by his own conference and
was suspended durGnte impeduno; he appealed the
General Conference, and they affirmed the decision He
asked then, II II possible-if Ii competent-f
the minority, before the church, the court, and the
country to allege such for separation. Was
that reason to strike down pillars which should rear
capitol that was TO sparkle in the Mt Choate then
referred 10 pages E and Ia Of first Book Of Proofs which
have already been reported proceeded to dis
cuss the question to whether the General Confe-
renee had the power to pass any such vote. lie
commended that Bishop Andrew not suspended
from he 80 .hAx
hymn book that might be carried down to the latest
posterity and Il was not placed there with desire
little children should inquire why it was go and where
the behop was; but " was that when the difficulty
should be inferred with his bones the good that he had
done might live after him lie would refer to page so Of
the second Book Of Proofs
While therefore the explanation giving the original
action advisory character outstanding the incon-
sstency involved fully protects Bishops Soule and An
drew from the shadow of blame in the they
have purs ued the entire action in the case and espe
cially when connected with the OF Harding,
alluded 10 in the declaration fully sustans the general
view Of the subject have taken in this report The
Southern delegates at the General Conference in pre-
sentng to that body their declaration and protest. acted
and they continue TO act the repree of the
South under the full conviction that the principles and
and policy by the Northern majority such
to render their public and practical remuneration by the
southern Methodist ministry and people necessary to
the safety not less than the success of the church in the
SOUTH
And again report the Of the church. in the
fret Book Of Proofs. page III
In the meantime Bishop soule wrote TO Bishop An
drew requesting him TO episcopal functions and
the character and Office Of bishop to attend the
sessions Of annual conferences which he did, though
said clearly in conraventon OF the expressed
viii OF the General Conference that he desist from the
exercise Of the episcopal oce 50 long as the im2edi
ment o. slaveholdDg 'remained-by which acts
both Bishop soue and Bishop Andrew openly repudatcd
the authority Of the General Conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church
On page lO4 they would End Il statedby the committee
that they aware that IL i affirmed By some Of the nao
ry but meanwhile denied by others aud thus mooted
uns.tsd qu stion themselves that the resolution
ccnsurIg aud virtually suspending Bishop Andrew, as
understood by the minority l. matter Of advice
reeommen dstion but far from advising recommend
rg thing the Language % the resolution by fair and
necessary construction imperative ami mandatory in
form aud unqualified by anything in the resolution it.
self or in the preamble explaining it. conveys the idea
plainly and most explicitly that is the Judgment and
will Of the conference that Bishop Andrew shall To
exercise the Office Of Bishop until he shall cease to be
the Of slaves Resolved That 1t Is the Of
this conference that be desistn That H. having rem
dered himself unacceptable to the majority u Is their
Judgment that he retire from the bench Of Bishops and
their field Of action
No idea a request, advice, recommendation, is
conveyed by the language ii the preamble resolution
and the avOwal II intention to advise is in
the judgment 81 the undersigned dsowned by the very
terms IN which, Il l. said, the advice given The
whole argument Of the majority. during debate OF
d place bishop Andrew without resort TO formal trial
No questioned the legal right OF the conference TO
advise, and II this only intended why the protrscted
debate upon the subject But further resolution
spccfuly aud alectonatey requesting the Bishop to
reign had been laid aside 70 entertain the substitute
under notice motion toe to declare the resolution
advisory, promptly rejected by the majority aud in
view Il an those facts and the entire proceedings Of the
majority in the case. the undersigned have been com
PEELED 10 consider the resolution a mandatory judy
Mt 10 the eject that Bishop Andrew desist from the
exercise II his episcopal Junction. The Bishop made
able to the power ~ the General Conference The
question ia whether not under the forms u law there
here such outrage upon the rights ~ the south az
10 wsrrant the action which the south had taken in H.
Heavily is Il on them 10 show that real outrage has
been Ct mmittod 10 warrant such step
Mr. Choate eontended that was not the North that
introduced the subject u innovation; aud that for
period II sixty years, candidate who slave
holder ever elected 70 a bsh0prc. IL the
corded II the church notified 10 the North aud 70
the south that bishop not - BE- STAKEHOLDER II
admitted that the candidate could not hold slaves;
II then. Senseess t. suppose that the incumbent
could be STAKEHOLDER Il srnselcss to imagine that
the very moment a elected he could diyest
himself 81 the qualification which entitled him TO the
ofce. The law VI 1900 says -" When any travelling
preacher becomes owner II slave or slaves BY any
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