Reply of Bishops Meade, M´ilvaine, and Burgess
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Excerpt from Reply of Bishops Meade, M´ilvaine, and Burgess: To the Argument Presented by the Committee of the Convention of the Diocese of New Jersey, to the Court of Bishops, in Session at Burlington for the Trial of Bishop Doane With these preliminary remarks, we beg to place before the court some considerations exhibiting the exceeding seriousness, the grave responsibility, the critical importance of the duty to which you are now called in deciding upon the question before you. When the request was made to you that the Committee representing the Convention of the Diocese of New Jersey might be permitted to appear at your bar, and present a written argument, having for its declared object the persuading of the judges in this case to adopt a certain interpretation of the law under which alone they sit, in order that they might be induced to dismiss, without trial, the charges we have brought at so great a sacrifice of personal feeling, and under so solemn a sense of duty to the church, we felt ourselves called on to resist such request by all the means canonically within our reach. We urged that to admit them and their argument was against the provisions of the law under which this court is constituted, and by which it must proceed; that no parties are known to that law, and, consequently, none can lawfully appear at this bar but the judges, the presenters, and the respondent; that the admission of any other to influence, in any way, your decisions, would be as inconsistent with the rules and usages of courts of analogous jurisdiction, and with the fundamental principles of jurisprudence, as with the terms and provisions of our Canon Law; and would, therefore, institute a precedent of the most dangerous character to the future discipline of the church. But our objections were overruled. We submitted respectfully to the authority of the court. The Committee was admitted. They presented and read a document, previously printed. It is material, at this stage of our remarks, that the court should bear in mind that a part of the argument of the Committee rests upon the fact of a new presentment having been made after the Convention of New Jersey, by its representatives, had investigated the charges contained in a former presentment; that the determining consideration which led us to make that new presentment was the doubt, to say the least, resting upon the legality of the act of our late venerable Presiding Bishop, postponing the trial of the former from the time first appointed to a later day, and thus making doubtful the legality of a court assembled on that day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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