Year: 1862

persist in the violation Of their Church Obligations they
shall deserve rebuke This prospective action ias sI'
hat soletnny believe duty to the Church 70
the country, and 10 the government under which we


live There should be an immediate, instant ana present
ceusure pronounced them for their revolt and re-
beon against thus government and for their breach OF


their solemn engagements 10 the Church with ieesngs,
the ereore deeply repugnant at introducing any thing IN
onpositin 10 tbe resolutions so wisely drawn far
they GO and mbued with so pure religious and par
otie feeling have TO propose an amendment TO the 10
solutions submitted with the report, as follows
Resolved, That tho resolutions submitted by Mr.. Hon.
man or the 4h INST and referred TO the committee OF
Nine be adopted the resolutions Of this House.
Hon. r. G. WINTHROP could not help protesting in the
most earnest, but at the same time most respectful,
against the construction he might say miscon-
cton put onesof those resolutions submitted by
the committee the very outset Of these proceedings Ee
was sensitive the subject What had been the
of events during week this Convention and in
the community The President OF the Convention upon
his own responsibility appointed Committee Of Nine TO
consider the subject involved in the report. From the
moment the committee was appointed there has not
been paper in the city that has not poured a volume
of prejudice OF prejudgment and hostility against this
Convention Even this floor from many different
sides the Convention has heard the loyalty Of the com
disposition to.poison the fountain from which those
resolutions TO come, to lower it In the Judgment
OF the community. His friend Judge Hoffman, on the
second reading or tho resolutions, had undertaken TO
put positive construction the reportthat the COM
mitee had withheld all censure till something In the
future shall have been accomplished. Now he lMr
winthrop wished 1t to GO forth TO the country that
there is not word of condemnation or reproach in The
Of the resolutions word used as to the past
present or future in connection herewith AS an
ecclesiastical council in spirit OF Christian forbearance
the committee forbore from using any terms OF condemna
tion reproach with regard to the Church in the South
The committee had expressed their solemn sense OF the
deep and grieyous wrong which will have been inflicted
upon the Church well upon the country and the
vernment, under which their Church is established
il they he Southern Church should succeed in rendng
asunder the civil religious bond which had long
held them together. There condemnation or re-
proach that declaration except what may result from
the fact expressed that they striving to accomplish
great wrong the Church and TO the country which, he
prayed God they would never be able to accomplish.
The desire Of the committee WAS


BY winning words TO conquer willing hearts,


And make persuasion do the work OF fear.


Judge HOFFMAN said ii qnite possible he might
have msconceved the purpor OF the report He was now
to understand that the committee had uttered no con.
demnation-pedgsd the Church 10 no condemnation OF
any the action Of the Southern clergy II was con
tended that not word OF condemnation or re-
proof In the report, for the past, the present
Or the future. He had supposed there was pros
pectve condemnation In certain contingencies il
they persisted in their acts. lie wrong. he dis
covered conception aud he learns that there
positive word either OF condemnation rebuke
held out TO them for the past the present or the u
ture. He would move, before the matter came up for
discussion that the report and accompanying resolutions
be printed and laid before members.


The motion for printing prevailed, and the matter was
postponed till to day.


The resolutions with regard to the election OF Bishop
Wilmer by the Southern bishops also ordered TO be
printed.


Some nero church routine business then gone
through with, and the Convention adjourned till this
morning.