New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-25
BIsHop DoANE's Poorest, APPEAL, AND

R,sHop DoANE's PReTEsT, APPEAL, AND
RxpLr.-Ws have received pamphlet containing
a protest BY Rev. Bishop Doane against the pro-
xedure of the Bishops of Virginia, Maine, and Ohio
in requesting him to call a Special Convention for
the Investigation of charges made against him,
which have beer in circulation for years, to the
sreat grief of many and the injury of religion. This
action Of the Bishops, which was based on com.
rasint preferred by four lay members of the Church.
is pronounced by Bishop Doane to be uncanonical,
unchrstian, and inhuman. After commenting on
The request of his accusers with NO small asperty,
he proceeds to reply to the charges, mpeachng his
character, which relate principally to improper con-
duct in the pecuniary administration Of the public
institutions under his direction. We do not find it
pretended that he was guilty of malversaton for the
promotion of his private interests. The Protest
opens with all the ecclesiastical solemnities;
"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and
Of the Holy Ghost, Amen. The Undersigned George
Washington Doane. ID. d., LII: d by divine per-
misson Bishop Of the Diocese of New-Jersey, hum.
bly, mihhtering before God, In the twentieth year OF
has Epecopste, in the name Of His crucihed Son,
and IN the power Of His sanctifying Spirit and not
without tokens Of the Heavenly blessing on his I'M
faithful and unworthy ministrations; makes, nov,
as N the immediate presence Of the Holy Trinity,
adorable and to be blessed, his solemn Protest.
a. assrieved by the Right Reverend William Meade,
ID ID Bishop of the Diocese OF Virginia the Right
Reverend George Burgess, ID D., Bishop OF the
D0cese OF Maine and the Right Reverend Charles
Petnt Mclvaines ID. d., Bishop OF the Diocese OF
Ohio, by their uncGnsncdl, unchristian and mtumaa
procedure in regard 10 him as heretofore set forth,
IN the document bearing their signatures"
The Appeal is addressed by name to the Bishops
Of the Epiecopal Church in the United States, and
"to all and singular, the Bishops OF the Reformed
Catholic Church in all the world" The several ae-
cushions urged against Bishop Doxne are cOnsid-
esed minutely in the Reply, which closes with the
following impassioned language
TIE undersigned has done with the details OF the
William Halsted, Caleb Perkins, Peter V. Coppuck
and Bennington Gill How many OF them ne mas
shown 70 be entirely false, he does not stop to count
That fasehoods, perversions or distortions OF the
ua'h, inslnustions, or whatever other form they
take they are calumnious, all is apparent on their
face. That their annus, throughout, has been ma
hgnant is just as clear and undeniable. They are
III neiehbers Of the undersigned They have never
suffered, from him, the shadow OF a wrong They
are related to him, as to father, in Christ Jesus.
And, yet, not one Of them has ever come to hi to
seek an explanation Not one OF them has ever
sought TO see the books. Nay, they have not even
searched the records of the County Office, which
they profess TO quote or searched them, to pervert
them. They have distilled, in secret the poison of
their heats: and they now commend the chalice to
m bps with the astounding declaration, 1--WE are
acsuated by no motives OF personal hostility against
the Bishop"
And these are the four persons and such the
cnafges upon whose authority, three Bishops in the
Church OF God, without acquaintance with the men,
OF inquiry as TO their allegations have relied, the
eouna OF criminal proceedings, against their peer.
fesxful indeed, the reckoning they will have to
meet For the inroad which mas thus been made
upon The sasred SORROWS of desolaied hearth for
me interruption OF the daily duties OF an office, which
scos TO the care of Diocese, the care Of PARISH,
ana me care OF two institutions, in which two hun
cieo Of The sons and daughters Of the Church arc
noStuxcd for the storm which no must burst upon
ae peace and quiet OF the Church for this aggres-
Won On the diocese of NewJersey for this invasl On
~ we rights OF its Convention for this injustice, in
SgnNy, and cruelty toward It's Bshop--for the whole
snount and all the shapes, and every incident and
soneqeence, Of this enormous wrong-the under
saeo hods. as responsible, the Bishops OF Virginia,
asisc and Ohio accuses them, before Christendom
s ~ summons them, In all solemnity and sorrow, be-
iofs the fragment seat of God