Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-22
THE nAaGA1s STRUCK.


In which the entire Chu Oh should cordially
unite. Nor Is this all. The temperate and dig
nifled protest of most respectable minority OF
the lower House, offered by DR.. Vinton 81 tne
close of the eleventh days session, ' as re-
fused record.
In answer to which / append the fol-
lowing, from an authorized report OF the
proceedings of the Convention, being
the response of the lower House to
a resolution sent in from the House of
Bishops, recommending Tuesday, Octo-
Der 18th, as day of Thanksgiving for
the bless sings Of peace and union:
Washington Hunt, Of New York, offered the
folio wing resolution:
Reso!ved, That the House of Clerical and Lay
Deputies recognizing with profound gratitude
the goodness Of Almighty God manifested in the
restoration Of national peace and union will cor
daily uni in the thanksgiving services appoint
ed by the House Of Bishops, on Tuesday next.
Unanimously adopted s
The italics are my OVID. i wish to
call particular attention to the fact Of.
the undnimity with which the resolution
passed. We had delegates there from
Texas, from Tennessee, from North
Carolina, and other Southern Dioceses.
To that portion of the article referring
to Dr. Vinton's protest, the following is
a sufficient and complete answer, being
an extract from report of the proceed
ings of the Convention on Wednesday,
October Is:
On the reading Of the minutes, Hon. Washing
ton Hunt offered the following as an amendment
to the mi nutes, in reference to DR.. Vinton's Pro-
test: fae
v HEREAs, said Protest suppresses aud ignores
tho Resolution OF this Hous unanimously
adopted en- the 18th inst ''TocoRnizing with pro
M fha Cf tr7,t ad
manifested in restoring National Peace and
Union - and whereas. such suppression IS unjust
AID icjurions to this nouss, ami calculated t.
produce erroneous impression in regard TO its
proc edings; therefore,
Resolued, That said Protest be not received.
MIR. Hunt said that, in offsring thisamendment
to the minutes, his purpose was to vindicAfe the
House from the erroneous impressions which the
Protest calculated to produce On his mo-
ton, tue House had, with entire unanimity, ex-
pressed its profound gratitude for the restoration
| Of national Pelce aud Gnion. The National
Union by necessary implication, as well Rs in the
popular acceptation OF the terms iDeludcs ths In
tegrity Of the nation aud the Federal Govern
meEt, with eli its rightfui aHd constitutional au-
thority the whole land. 1t was in this sense
/ that the Union had been defended ard preserved
| 10 framing the resolution he had employed the
! term in this sense, Synonymous with the Na.
! tioBal Government, based on Unconstitutional
unioa of the States, with all its powers complete
and unimpaiTed. He felt fully warranted in as
sorting that such was ths true .mea aing and in
| tention of this Ffouss.
Hon Mr. Fish amended by moving that the
whole references to the protest be stricken from
| the minutes, as IL was rot received, and should
not, therefore, BIS On The minutes. 90
Mr.. Fish's Amendment was adopted. -
Now / confidently ask, are not these
two extracts from the proceedings COM
plete refutation of the statement that the
Convention "pefsistently refused to en-
terrain IN any shape sohateuer, PROPOSE
ton which should recognize the re-
establishment of the National authority
as a subject of thankfulness in which the
entire Church should cordially mite q
Is it not perfectly clear, what is the
truth in the matter of DR. Vinton's
protest. This jesuitical tissue of truth
and falsehood, with as little truth as
possible about it, would represent to the
public that the protest was refused
record because of the disloyal and un-
patriotic spirit of the Convention, when
here is plain resolution on the record
to the very contrary. If am not
i justified in calling the writer of this
article deliberate falsifer and elan
i derer Of the Church, it is because i am
not informed as to his character for
common intelligence, and his sources
for getting at the truth.
| If he wants to say, that the Church,
represented in this Convention, refused
to enact anything on the subject OF
slavery, why does he not come out IN an
honest way and say so2 Then we are
prepared to meet him. We are prepared
to grant that she did not, and We are
prepared to defend her course in this
| in Hhrfoffar an1 Oh ate i Il
spirit, and to show that it is in accord
ance with time honored and we'll estsb-
lished principle, and has no reference
at all to the loyalty or disloyalty Of her
members, or to any political considera-
| ton whatever. But no: he attempts to
confuse the. public mind; to confound
the question with issues altogether
irrelevant; to raise a. party clamor
against the Church, andwhiIe inquiring
after her health, like the bloody Joab OF
] Scripture, stab her under the fifth rib. "
His '.cant" and whine ON this subject
is absolutely disgusting and unworthy
any notice at ALL He sheds crocodile
tears in abundance over the Church 8
future doom, because she world not say
Slavery" at the dictation of petty
| vi OuuICu
1t seems to me that there is, to-day,
no religious body in the land that has
such "cloud of witnesses" to its 10y
atty, and anti slavery position, as the
Protestant Episcopal Church. Seven
Bishops have given to the world their
testimony in its favor. Three Southern
Bishops have proclaimed it in their let
ter to the Southern Church As we
have seen, she has taken pains to put
her loyalty on record upon the minutes
of the Convention. And now an article
appears in the Western Episcopalian,
saying, Ut the issue could hare. been
presented, pure and simple, for o..
against slacery-.for or against the res
tOrGtion Of the authority of the United
StGtes-the result could haze been as
overwhelmingly IN the Affirmative. as it
could be s's any religious deliberatice
body an the land We are very much
obliged for this complete vindication of
the Convention, but it argues too much
intelligence on the part of the writer,
with respect to the true state of the case,
to warrant the rest of the article Hav-
ing written this, he had better have left.
all that out And he pays no eompli-
ment to the good sense of the American
people, when he expresses-so much fear
as to the estimation in which they will
hold the Church's loyalty, with all this
written and published evidence of it be-
fore them. 1t isenothing more than
the expression of a fear that they can
not, or will not, read; or that, like him.
self, they will be led rather by blind pas.
sion and mad prejudice, than by clear
sense and calm reason.
Here is another gem from the article
we are reviewing, which we cannot pass
without notice:
"Ths Episcopal Church in these United states
has nothing more thoroughly and soundly to
dread, so far the extension Of her own infuspca
for Christ snd His truth is concerned, whether at
home or abroad, than that she sheuid come to bs
recognized as in sympathy with the past, rather
than with the future
Exactly so. Here is some truth in
very bad company. How it got into
such conglomeration OF false statements
and false issues it is difficult to deter
mine, but it is here and we will use it..
Slavery and the civil war, at the time Of
that Convention, had become things of
thepast This is the identical principle
put forth by Mr.. Hunt, of New York, in
a speech on Tuesday, the 17th Of October,
against Mr.. Binney's resolutions, as de-
Tended by DR.. Vinton, brought in imme-
diately after the Convention held its
thanksgiving for the restoration of peace
and the national authority. The reso-
lutions were an insult to the House of
Bishops, an affront to the Canadian
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