National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-05-22

CHICAGO, May IA. The resOlu.
tons adopted at the Methodist Lay
Convention this afternoon declare
that the present generation Of Meth
Odists have the same right to change
the plans Of the Church for their
Improvement and to adapt it to al.
tered circumstances that Wesley
and the fathers had to create it, and
that as the educational, publishing,
missionary and other charitable
agencies depend largely upon the
laity for support, and as the laity
are already charged with response
bility concerning them, we regard it
as eminently reasonable and desira-
BILE that they should be associated
with the ministry in the inception,
establishment and modification of
the variOns institutions of the
church.
THE CHASE MovEMENT.--The
rumors respecting a movement in
the interest of Chief Justice Chase
for the next Presidency begin to
take a definite form, as will be seen
by our Washington dispatches. To
many observing Republicans this
will not be surprise, while others
have only been kept from harboring
the thought of such possibilities by
their high respect for Judge Chase
and their determination to believe
nothing to his discredit. But his
course throughout the Impeachment
trial has been inscrutable and pain
full to his best friends. In cOnnec-
ton with this, reports of sundry
conversations and of the doings of
those standing in peculiar relations
to Judge Chase b; We come to light,
compelling to the conviction that he
is Oh the point-if not already past
it-of turning his back Oh the Re
publican party and facilitating with
its opponents and his own hitherto
bitterest foes, with the result, if not
for the sake, of his own attempted
advancement.
If this should prove so, very well.
1t is a matter of more concern to
Judge Chase than to anybody else.
1.-The can afford to draw a veil over
his own noble record desert the
ranks which were proud to fight,
shoulder to shoulder, with him the
battle of freedom and patriotism
throw off the robes of his exalted
Office and accept from those who
embarrassed and those who asSailed
the Government i'll its critical hour
apositlon of antagonism 10 the con
queror of the Tebellion-it he can
afford to do this, it is not for others
to grleve. except on his ACCOUNT
Every great organization has its
eras OF detection on the part OF men
who have fed upon It's honors and,
In their own estimation, grown too
great for its fellowship. Seward,
johnson, Doolittle, Dixon-such are
the representative names OF those
who have already left the Rcpubi-
can party, not however, to its mate.
rial injury. If now, the Chief JUS
ticc designs to head another desert
ing clique, his former friends will
only ask that he execute his move
ment promptly and without dis.
gulse. y hundred times better is
an open toe than an apparent
friend whose heart is already where
he ought to be administering blows.
The republican party in the coming
eXigency, serenely and confidently
challenges all assaults from without
let it have no more from within
Boston journal.
One hundred and twenty. six wo-
men marched to the polls in Sturgis,
Mich, and in a separate box depos.
tied their votes on the prohibition of
liquor question Ia for prohibition,
SIX against.
y young lady in New York broke
her engagement the other day be-
cause her lover presented her with n
plain gold ring instead of diamond
which she had expected. She don't
deserve any ring at all.