Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-04-17
What the Great Methodist
Church says about Impsach-
ment and about General
Grant.

| Nothing 50 significantly proves that
public opinion demands the impeachment
and removal Of Andrew 10 hnson from the
Presidential chair as the appeals and pray
ers and resolutions of the great religious
bodies. The spirit that prevailed during
the war is everywhere revived. and there
Is not a newspaper. Il great divine or phil
| anthropist, identified with the cause OF the
ountfy in that great struggle, that does
II now invoke speedy action by the Sen
ate. The following report By the New
Eng laad Conference Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, at Boston. Massachusetts.
was unanimously adopted Oh Saturday the
18th ult. all the members rising amid much
enthusiasm:
We give thanks to our Lord and Savior
for leading our nation thiouyh the blood
and fire and vapor of smoke which for
four years clshrouded us in its sulphu.ous
canopy.
We especially praise His name that in
this hour of national agency the greatest
crime of history persisted from the face of
the land.
We rejoice that in carrying forward the
work of natiOnal regeneration the Congress
of the United States has bccn so faithful
to the will of God in building up Our ruin
cd State organizations on the only just and
enduring foundations of the equal and fra
ternal oneness of man.
We deeply regret the constant and vio-
lent hostility of the President of the Uni
ted States 10 the action OF Congress and
the will of the people in respect to this du-
ty, aud that it has compelled his inipe ich-
ment for high crimes aad misdemeanors
before the Senate of the United States.
We hereby heartily aud solemnly ap-
prove this action of the House of Repre-
seniatives, and trus. the honorable Senate
and the Chief Justice of the United States
in this most important trial will magnify
our laws and make them honorable in the
| eyes of all the nations.
! We cordially approve the action of L. s.
Grant. General OF the army of the United
States. in yielding up the keys Of his oilice
rs Secretary of War al interim to the rema-
lar Secretary Immediately on the decision
of the Senate 10 the right of occupancy.
We also commend bis whole system in this
critical history as inspiring confidence il,
the Republic and as showing 10 all nation
that in America her first generals are ODE
dent to law. in both drawing and sheath
ing the sword OF victory.
| Wcmost gratefully recognize the sagac-
ity, courage, and faitlifIlncss of Hon. Ed
win Nj. Stanton, the Secretary of War;
We honor his great services during The
war. and those equally valuable which he
rendered in this our last struggle with the
slave power. May Cd preserve him il
his high trust until the rebellion, whether
in the White House or in its Southern de
partmenls, shall be utterly put down.
AS our nation has been conductet
through this long, perilous. and bloody
controversy by the spirit of God through
the prayers of this Church. we reques
the members of our churches and al
Christians to be unwearied in their suppl
cations that the c0nsumlna;ing of the con
ilict now going forward, may be contormet
to all its previous stops, and obtain for us
as nation, the continued and crowniE.
blessings of God.
Resolcea, That a copy of this report b
sent to the Secretary of War, the Speake
Of the House OF Representatives, the Pres
, ident of the Senate, and the Chief Justice
, and Genera OF the Army Of the Unite
= States.-l Wig,