Litchfield enquirer., 1869-01-28

Dsa5 Many or NIT. h. w.. BacOnS former parishioners will be interested in the fol- lowing: fr7l 'af 9i Y L4' :" s tl'' Al't x ,.
 THE AMERICAN, AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNIoN.-rThef charges made in Putaam's Mont1aly, by Rev. l.. w. Bacon, one of the directors of this society, against it's man agement, have called forth sharp action in the Board of Directors. After two stormy sessions, the following resolutions were passed, Jan. l4th: la s75aa.l2 q sl .tt | s s
 ".Whereas, The Rev. F. w. Bacon, a mem Der of this Board, has appealed to the pub lie, in an article in P,t'aans's 1Nngazine, up on aquestion of the moral duty of this Board upon the ground that the opinion of the public to be thus secured was neces- sary to bring this Board to the discharge of it's duty;
 s'And 1hereas, The action already taken by this Board on the questions involved gave him no reason to infer that the very results at which he aimed might not have been secured within the Board by the ordi- nary methods of action in such bodies; a'ii-
 l"Reso1oed, That this Board, leaving aside all question of the correctness of Mr. Ba- cons statements in that article, is con strained to pronounce the action of Mir Ba- con, as above described, and especially the tone of his article, to be inconsistent with the Christian relation of gentlemen whose conscientious action is not to betimpugned by each other without the forfeit of mu-s tual respect.
 "Resoloed, That special committee Of six be appointed by this Board, whose duty it shall be to prepare suitable statement respecting the whole subject, to be submitted to this board for its sanction, n Il o1~ ~on l,o
 This action acknowledges tbat the socie- ty is put on it's defensive, and the religious public will be eager to learn what the line was simple one: that the society had off cially sanctioned, published and circulated, among its books against Romanism, those which were ibelous, or indecent, or utter forgeries; and had refused, when the forge ries and falsehoods were brought to its no-t tice, to retract them as publicly as it had issued them, although the Directors had acknowledged their character and had been for six months importuned to do what was honest in the case. It Is due to the society to state that, while it has never publicly withdrawn the slanderous volumes, they have been silently withdrawn from circuIa- tion on the responsibility of the junior secretary, who, we understand. has bro ken up some of the plates. We believe that the only formal action taken by the Direc
 tors wa s to authorize the committee on publications to dispose, at their discretion, of the accumulation of printed natter Mir. Bacon. however, thought this not a satisfactory reparation for the islanders, as he regards them, which had been publish ed. The questions then before the con- stituency of this important society are: First, Is Mir. Bacon slanderer of his fell llow-directors, or is the charge made by him against the society true, that it has igno- rantly but culpably published to the world works which are false, indecent and forged. Secondly, If So. why has M not d the society as publicly retracted them, in 3 manly way? Thirdly, Has MT. Bacon impetuously. ap- pealed to the public before he had exhaust ed all proper methods to induce the Dine tors to do whatnhe thought was duo to themselves, to their constituency, and to the Roman Catholics?= s?=Independent. <