Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-11
The Elections Yesterday.
Tire Episcopal Convention.

Tire Episcopal Convention
PHILADELPHIA, October 1O.-The Commit
| tee on the Consec1 alton of Bishops '.ported
resolution recommending concurrer zee in the
acceptance by the House of Bishop ps of Rev.
R. H. Wilmer as Bishop of the Diocese of
Alabama The resolution caused very
warm discussion.
sECo ND DESPATCH.
DIR. Vinton, of ennsylvania, said it was a
painful duty to him to oppose the consecraton
of DIR. William Winner to the Bishopric of
Alabama, knowing him as he did and having
partaken of his h ospitaities. He then read
certain resolutions which had been offered by
him at the last co INVENTION, and which had
been laid on the table, as follows:
Resolred, That, the House of Bishops CON
curing, this General Convention of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Chu rch in the United States
of America, pronou nee the action of the
Bishops of Virginia, Georgia and South Caro-
lima, in their col1secr alton of Richard HI. Will
mer, d. d., of tn Episcopal See of Alabama,
to be Irregular un canonical and schismatical,
and that his jursd iction in the Diocese of Ala
bama is void and Of no effect.
Res0lred, That his preamble and resolution
be referred to a jc int committee of this House
with instructions to consider and report what
fu rther action, if any, this convention shall
take to assert til e dignity and enforce the
rights of the Prot, sstant Episcopal Church of
the United States n the premises.
He then read the oath required of Bishop,
which requires him to swear obedience to the
Shall there be a Bis hop acknowledged as a
Bishop of the Church who has not conformed
to the oath required of him by our canons.
Had we not better W ait until the Church in
Alabama has express ed their willingness to
comply with..o requirements?
Rev. Dr. Carkson announced that the letter
from DIR. Wilmer, addressed to Bishop Hop
kins and others, bearing on this very subject,
had been received. The reading of the letter
was called for.
DR.. Hare stated that. the papers proposed to
be read were a letter from Bishop Wilmer to
the clergy of Alabamas the order of the COM
mandant thereupon; the request of Bishop
Wilmer for explanation of the action of the
commandant therein; the reply of the COM
mandant. The letter from Bishop Wilmer to
the House of Bishops was not in the envelope.
DR.. Cuttings objected 10 the reading of any
part of the documents in the envelope.
Rev. DR.. Harlem stated that if the telegraph
had done its work with ordinary speed Bishop
Wilmer had heard of the action Of this Con
vention, and that he had expressed willing
ness to conform to the requirements of the
Church.
The President, in ruling upon the call for
the reading of the documents received from
Bishop Wilmer, said that as it appeared to be
a mutilated paper it could not be received and
could not be read
DR.. Clarkson then explained that he had
stated that the letter from Bishop Wilmer to
the House of Bishops had been received with
other documents These papers had been
handed to him, but were subsequently with
drawn.
Hon. j. B. Ruggles, of New York, then
made an address, but, owing TO the confusion
at the door, he could not be heard.
The Convention will not be in session to-
morrow, the day being proloriated to the
conservation of the Rev. Charles Todd Quin-
tard Bishop elect of the Diocese of Tennessee
| at ST. Luke's Church. The sermon on the oc
casion will be delivered by Bishop Stevens, of
Pennsylvania.
The discussion on the Wilmer case continued
until the hour of adjournment.
| The Convention adjourned till Thursday,
tomorrow being set apart for the conservation
of Bishop Quintard.