Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Expressing his differences with him with regard to his circular of June 22nd addressed to the Southern Bishops; disagreeing that an overture needs to be made to the Southern Bishops as he feels the Northern Bishops have done nothing wrong; objecting "to sending to the Bishop of Georgia [Rev. Stephen Elliott] any assurance of a cordial welcome until he had publicly expressed his sorrow & regret for the extraordinary & abusive language which he applied to his address at the funeral of Bishop Polk [Bishop of Louisiana], and had openly retracted those false and calumnious assertions;" saying that he believes that the Church in the South "by their teachings on the subject of slavery, by countenancing that sectional animosity which they must have known to be groundless and unreasonable, and by rushing with indecent & eager haste into the assumption of a separate nationality, some of them actually taking the sword, and by giving as far as possible to treason and rebellion, the countenance & encouragement of religion, are generally responsible before God & man for the bloodshed and miseries of the last five years;" saying that for the reasons he has stated, he cannot support the circular.