Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-23
THREE CENTS.


lCOHMCNlCATEDl
To the Editors NJ NE Baltimore Commercial -
GENTLEMES: The unprovoIed attack upon Bishop
sta!ey admitted into your columns the 18th inst,
entities me To ask OF your sense of justice the nser
ton Of the enclosed extract from the New York
Cn@feh J0HFRot, OF the Goth instant.
You VIII perhaps permit me TO add, that my
PERSONAL knowledge Of efforts for the settlement of
m Episcopal Church in the Sandwich Islands from
the year 1893 onwards enables me to give fiat con-
lralc!on to the assertion oi political bearing and
design in that measure
The mcetine which Bishop staley attended in En-
manuel Church, on sunday evening last vas for the
advancement. not Of his mission but of the work of
IN !ne ,hPsGopal Church among the poor and destitute
Respectfully yqHr', ,,,
Baltimore, Dec. o. 1866 ~ v ~ NUN AM
THE ATTACKS on THE BISHOP OF HONOLULU.
, The Puritan crusade against the Bishop of Homo
known that he was here. following up the onsaughts
maze fa' 5 Ine ] before ne Srriyed The following letter
IRON tne fbSShoP oi New York will outweigh any
quantity Of the abuse that fills the Puritan journals:
TIE BISHOP OF HONOLULU.
-ResSrs hstltor@ The Bishop Of Honolulu was my
guest i?r fortnight or more. lie is 900 miles from
us hatTo country, and more than GOO from his DiO-
cese. lie may be said to be the guest the welcome
guest, Of our Branch Of the Church in this country
ie comes TO invite us 10 take part with the Anglican
!Ii!uIch, N ms work n me sandwich Islands. Let
TINS he my apology with him and with the Church for
agaln connecting my name with his. He has been
somewhat violently aSsaied since he came among us
II Is no part OF my intention to enter into any state
ment IN regard ta the way in which his mission ia
conducted, much less to say single word in ropv TO
any insinuatonS against his EpiscOpaEwork hayen0t
been careful to inquire whehCrthe mode of conducting
the services Of the Church adopted by him. or bv his
ccfsy M the Sandwich Islands be or be not precisely
the mode in every respect. which would be most
coniornahe to my individual taste and views [ con-
cent myself with saying, and do with entire con-
hdencc, and with abundant means of knowing that
he l4 4 loyal son OF the Church, and an educated
EngIlsh gentleman, above all suspicion of the least
%ppr0ach t9 dlsnsenuousncss in MS dealing with tho
Iruth as held by his own Church and by ours or in
the overture which ho makes us to take part in his
mission.
mach mistake the spirit Of the great body Of the
Church IN this country. If these attacks upon stran
ger, ahd 4 Missionary Bishop in the Church of God
are OF q nature to find favor among themif they do
not indeed react 10 The increase OF sympathy with his
set-doTottoa It should be added that the American
clergyman who has been reported having left the
mission II Tho Sandwich Islands has returned to that
held OF duty. UORATI0 POTTER,
Bishop of New York.
To the above we would only add ono word, touch
ing the charge III some of Puritancal contempo-
rames. that the Church Mission in Hawaii is only a
political movement, 10 aid England in making the
Sandwich Islands British Colony. If it were So is
any body goose enough to suppose that Bishop Sta
ley would have been anxious. from the first to have
several American cergymen present with him all the
imc, who could at discover and unmask the
whole affair!