The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-23
lafEerty vs.. Haven.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph, 2lst]

From the fnlhueipuld AcicS1oPh1 NAes'I
PROSECUTED PRELATE.
IF the people who believe 10 Church and
State find themselves in possession OF trusty
champion in Bishop "Gil." Haven, their op.
ponents may be no less satisfied with Rev.
John j. Laiferty, OF Richmond, Fa. Haven
and Latferty may be said to stand at the
antipodes of third termism. They are both
devoted members of the same Church, and
the conflict between them is particularly In
tcrestiug from the fact that they occupy posi-.
tons almost equally high in its councils.
"Glbert" is bishop, and, as such, IS one
of the highest Church officials, but Laferty
belongs to that higher estate which we are
told on good authority Yields power
mightier than the sword. He Is editor OF the
leading Methodist journal South, and bis re.
morseless scarifying Of Bishop "Gii." VIII
touch good many places other than the
reverend prelate's back. 1t may be suggested
that a geographical line is here drawn.
Lafferty OF Virginia against Haven OF
Massachusetts,; the Church South against
the Church North; the method Of church
foundation which enabled us to see in every
Methodist steeple In the South, in old days,
a yeritable negro in the wood.pile (inasmuch
as one institution appeared to be founded on
in New England, in which Haven bore so pro-
minent part. If the point at issue involved
any less considerations of charity and good
will than q church relationship is supposed
to convey, we might think that the severe
punishment inflicted upon Bishop Haven by
the party on the other side was simply 10 re.
payment of divers hard knocks received BY
the Church South from the violent abolition
list Ia DAYS agone. Be all that as it may,
however, it is certain that an American
bishop was never before used SO badly by
people Ia his own connection as Mr.. Haven
is used by his dear brethren in the Lord as
represented iu the Methodist communion. 1t
Is enough to make the Rev. Gill" torswear
Methodism eyermore-eyen to shake hands
with some "creed outworn,"i by that NEAR
refuge could be had from persecution. We
are reminded of passage in "The Opium
Eater" in which il described the effort of the
victim to escape an incubus OF torture and
doom. The narrative land it is surely one OF
the most wonderful things In the English
language) runs in part thus:
II fed from the wrath Of Brahma through
all the forests of Asia. Vishuu hated me.
Seeva laid wait for me. came suddenly
upon Isis aud Osiris. / had done deed,
they said, that the ibis and the crocodile
trembled at" ....-.a ..,r..s.
Here is Bishop Haven fleeing from the
wrath of the Methodist preachers. He has
done deed that all the conferences tremble
at, and be is destined not to hear the end OF
it for long time. That we do not over.
state the case report Of the Rev. Mr.. LAT
ferty's remarks on the subject, published in
yesterdays Telegraph, gives sufficient proof.
The opium. eaters anguished dream was
scarcely harder upon the sufferer than such
compliments as these from dear brother In
God must be to the Bishop:
"Hayea is nuisance at home and abroad.
His ambition Is notoriety and nastiness. He
ia condensed cancan In white cravat. He
pirouettes at any angle to tickle the pit
His measure OF success is the blush of de-
cency." :;
These are but sample compliments. What
the meaning Of the awful allusion to the cam
can is we do not know; perhaps the minis
terial notion of that orgie is somewhat misty
but It Is evidently intended to be as bitter as
the church pharmaeopeia could make It,
Whatever Mr.. Haven may think now OF the
third term, he is tolesably certain to have
realized that the paths of politics are not
those of pleasantness and peace.