Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-23
The Episcopal COnVentiOn-Scene over
the Kinney Resolutions,

lNEOm II NAiAauciphAa DhhOtAh-
The master mind of the Episcopal Con-
vention now in session in this city, is evil
IDENTIFY Stephen Elliott, of Georgia. When
that eminent Southern prelate issued his
famous mandate to the North, "Silence, if
| you please, but not one word of censure y
he sounded the keynote to which all the
doings of the Convention have been care
| fully and accurately tuned. 1t must be in
tensely gratifying to Bishop Elliott to find
that his influence is not only abated, but
that is greater thar ever. We have had
several marked r%ecognitions of the suprem-
acy of the Grand Master of the Order of
Reunited Episcopalians; but the culmi-
nation of them all was exhibited on Sat-
urday morning, when urtownsman, Hor-
ace Binney, jr., ESQ, introduced his loyal
resolution, asking the Bishops to recognize
our debt of gratitude to God for the sup
preston of the rebellion and the removal
of its cause. Had Mr.. Binney invited the
Convention to unite in a war-dance, he
could not have met with a more violent
response. From all parts of the House
loud cries were heard, demanding the i'm
mediate slaughter of of the resolution by
laying it on the table. Forgetting, for the
moment, those courtesies which the Con-
vantion may be supposed to W to those
whose liberal and willing hospitality they
are so abundantly enjoying, the Pennsyl-
vania deputatiOn was loudly denied the
privilege of a single word of explanation,
and it was by the most determined insist
ing upon their parliamentary rights that
they succeeded in securing a call for the
ayes and NAYS. Before this was done, the
Dro-,1on+ Pa- H. Quail nf an4,zob-
was asked if the vote about to be taken
would dispose of the question, and even
that unusually bland and accomplished di-
vine was so carried away by the excite
ment of the House, as to throw his intiu-
ence against the resolution and to seek to
bias the vote by replying, ayes, we shall
get rid of it for this time, at leastl"
Our readers have read the result. Thir-
ty-six members of the Convention were
all that could be found ready to thank God
for the blessings mentioned in the resolu-
ton. The whole mass of the body prompt
ly repudiated them and crushed the meas
ure with an iron heel. We are proud to
be able to say, that not only the whole
Pennsylvania deputation vote as a unit
for the resolution, but the whole New York
deputation, with the exception of the Rev.
DR.. Payne, voting against it, and Rev. DIR.
Higbee, absent, stood by this most loyal
resolution. Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles,
Jonas G. Heartt, Esq, Hon. Hamilton
Fish and Hon. Mr.. Pierpont are the lay
Representatives of the great Diocese of
New York. We need hardly say that
Ohio and Massachusetts proved true to
their principles on this occasion. All
honor to the little band of the clergy and
laity who had the courage to declare that
they are Americans as well as churchmen
they are patriots as well as EpiscO-
palians.
We presume that this is the end of the
matter, so far as this convention is con-
cerned. The loyal sentiment of the North
is as effectually muzzled as it ever was in
South Carolina, and it will be in vain for
for the distinguished gentlemen who rep
resent the great Diocese of Pennsylvania
to make any further effort to place upon
the records of the Convention those "un-
uttered truths which, if spoken, would
kindle the affections of thousands of the
free spirits towards the Episcopal Church.
1t is impossible to estimate the influence
that would have been exerted in favor of
the Episcopal Church had it shown itself,
on this occasion, true to its own daily re-
peated formulas.