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 VINDICATION OF BISHOP CHASE 
 
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 BY THE REV. SAMUEL CHASE, 
 
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 MALIGNITY EXPOSED ; 
 
 O R A 
 
 VINDICATION OF BISHOP CIIASE 
 
 AGAINST 
 
 THE MALICIOUS ACCUSATIONS 
 
 O F 
 
 AN ANONYMOUS PAMPHLET, PRINTED IN ANN-STREET, N. Y- 
 
 BY THE REV. SAMUEL CHASJE, 
 
 JUBILEE COLLEGE. 
 
 NEW-YORK: 
 STANFORD AND SWORDS, 139, BROADWAY. 
 
 1847. 
 
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 OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH 
 
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 MALIGNITY EXPOSED. 
 
 A Plain Statement for the consideration of the Friends of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Illinois, the Rt. 
 Rev. Philander Chase, D. D., Bishop ; drawn up some years ago, 
 but most proper for the present time, by one who now rests from his 
 labors : with notes by Observer. New-York : Turner & Lawrence, 
 Ann-street. 1846. 
 
 Such is the title-page of a pamphlet published some time since, 
 and undoubtedly extensively circulated throughout the Church at large, 
 and especially in the Diocese of Illinois. It is only recently that a 
 copy, through the kindness of a friend, was sent to the writer. 
 
 The circumstances under which the work comes before the public 
 beget in its behalf no claims to attention or credence. Not only is 
 the name of its editor studiously concealed, but even its authorship is 
 enshrouded in the obscurity of the grave. As to its intended office, 
 there can be no doubt : it is to originate and send abroad certain 
 statements and allegations, and hereafter to be adduced as evidence 
 in support of them : it is the embodiment of calumnies, surmises, and 
 insinuations, which itself has originated and called into existenGe ; 
 it is, in all respects, the murderous blow of the masked assassin. 
 
 The work in question, consisting of text and notes, purports to be 
 the production of two persons, and aims to produce the impression 
 that the tenure by which the property of Jubilee College is held, 

 
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 affords no assurance that it will be available to the Church ; but that, 
 on the contrary, its " legal ownership will be in the Bishop's heirs 
 at law." 
 
 This is the burden of the whole work, both text and notes ; and in 
 the effort to produce the above impression, Bishop Chase is assailed 
 on every hand, and in every possible manner, by allegations the most 
 calumnious, statements the most false, and insinuations the most un- 
 charitable and cruel. Not only are his public acts, in founding and 
 rearing up Jubilee College, censured and misrepresented ; but even 
 the sanctity of his private life, the privacy of his domestic arrange- 
 ments, are dragged before the world's gaze, and, either through 
 ignorance or malice, misrepresented and ridiculed. Isolated para- 
 graphs from various publications, detached from their proper connec- 
 tion, with a sinister interpretation, are brought forward to show that 
 the Bishop, in the disbursement of funds intrusted to him for the good 
 of the Church, whether contributed specially to the College or appro- 
 priated by the Board of Missions, has had sole reference to the support 
 of himself and family. 
 
 But notwithstanding all this, had the pamphlet involved only per- 
 sonal considerations, it would have provoked no answer : but inasmuch 
 as it involves the prosperity of Jubilee College and the advancement 
 of the Church in the Diocese of Illinois, the occasion is gladly seized 
 for making such statements as will vindicate the conduct of Bishop 
 Chase, and afford an assurance to his numerous benefactors that their 
 liberality has not been bestowed in vain. 
 
 That the text of the pamphlet, or at least its germ, was in existence 
 years ago, is well known to the friends of Jubilee College. In the 
 year 1839-40, the same was industriously circulated in the south, 
 where Bishop Chase was then soliciting contributions. 
 
 The sole question raised by its author is that of the tenure of the 
 College property, and is called up in these words : " I believe he 
 " (Bishop Chase) is acting in good faith and with the purest motives ; 
 " but still there is danger that neither the buildings nor the lands will 
 " ever come under the control of the Church ; and if they should not, 
 " it would be a serious blot upon his good name." Now the same 
 question, i. e. the possibility of perpetuating an eleemosynary institu- 
 tion without an act of incorporation, in almost " totidem verbis" was
 
 gratuitously thrust upon the notice of the friends of the College at the 
 south in 1839-40. Bishop Chase at this time had no charter, and 
 that for the very satisfactory reason that the legislature of that day 
 would have granted none commensurate with the design and necessi- 
 ties of the institution. Under these circumstances, the Bishop had 
 but to ask the opinion of those whose profession rendered them 
 familiar with such points : and the most eminent of the bar Of 
 Charleston, S. C, gave their unanimous decision that the institution 
 could be so perpetuated ; that Bishop Chase, as its founder, could, by 
 his last will and testament, so dispose of the property that it could not 
 be otherwise used than as intended by the donors. This decision 
 gave entire satisfaction to the friends of the institution. The Bishop 
 returned from the south bringing with him many and munificent gifts 
 for the College : indeed in many instances the very effort to " shut 
 out " Bishop Chase from the liberality of the generous south, was the 
 occasion of interesting many in his behalf, and many liberal donations 
 were the consequence. The truth is, in this matter the Bishop had 
 no choice. He had but one course to pursue ; — either to abandon 
 the enterprise of Jubilee College, or go on without a charter. That 
 at that day a charter could have been procured from the legislature of 
 Illinois, which would have secured the College to the Church, no man 
 who possesses a knowledge in the premises will say. It was beyond 
 the possibility of a dream. 
 
 In 1843 a small pamphlet was published, entitled " Review of Jubilee 
 College," in which the position of the College was candidly set forth, 
 both in reference to the good faith of Bishop Chase in managing its 
 property for the present good of the Church, and the mode by which 
 he designed its perpetuation in the Church. 
 
 Of this Review the annotator in his notes says : " It contains a 
 " show of argumentation in vindication of the Bishop in pursuing the 
 " course noticed. That the whole is fallacious in the extreme, is 
 " dec'iared by the most able jurists to whom the matter has been sub- 
 " mitted." That any " able jurists," who have carefully considered 
 the question, have ventured the above opinion, is not to be supposed ; 
 but that many have expressed the contrary opinion, is well known to 
 the writer. 
 
 The author of the Review, under the opinion, honestly, and, as
 
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 subsequent events verified, truly entertained, that Bishop Chase could 
 not at that time procure a suitable charter, vindicated him in per- 
 petuating the institution by deeds of trust. It at least was the occasion 
 of calling the attention of the legislature to the subject of a charter. 
 A gentleman who was a member of the legislature in 1844, after 
 reading the Review, assured the Bishop he had no doubt of his being 
 able to procure a charter on the approaching session. After this 
 assurance, Bishop C. sent through this gentleman the following 
 petition : 
 
 " TO THE HONORABLE THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS : 
 
 "The petition of Philander Chase humbly sheweth : That your 
 petitioner, in the exercise of his calling, and claiming a right which 
 he holds in common with all the denominations of Christian people, to 
 worship God according to the dictates of his conscience, hath deemed 
 it his duty to found an institution of religion and learning, intended to 
 confer degrees, and more especially for the education of young men as 
 ministers and preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to be con- 
 ducted according to the regulations of the denomination to which he 
 belongs. 
 
 " To this end he hath contributed much of his own substance, labor 
 and time, for many years, and, both in his own person and those of his 
 fumly, suffere d many hardships and deprivations ; and, what is worthy 
 of note, asking no assistance from the legislature, he hath gone abroad 
 for funds, and drawn nearly all his means from beyond the limits of 
 the state of Illinois, mostly from his personal friends and the members 
 of his own communion at a distance, till the object of his heart is so 
 far accomplished as to afford good hopes, if he be smiled on by the 
 rulers of the state, of final and complete success. 
 
 " What constitutes a singular feature in this enterprise is, that the 
 property contributed has been confided to the petitioner, with a full 
 reliance on his integrity and honor, to use it while living, and to be- 
 queath it when dying, according to the will of the donors, solely for 
 the benefit of the intended institution. This duty, himself and all he 
 possesses on earth are pledged to perform : — the salvation of his name 
 from infamy, and of his soul from everlasting perdition, require that he 
 should perform it. 
 
 "This can be done by deeds of trust; but, for reasons which will 
 alike redound to the honor of Illinois and to the good of mankind, the 
 petitioner would most respectfully ask, that he may be permitted by 
 law to dispose of the property which he has collected for Jubilee 
 College, to a board of incorporated trustees, to be named by him in 
 his last will and testament, whose duty shall be to fulfil the designs of 
 the donors and founder, as set forth by himself, in a pamphlet printed 
 in Peoria, entitled ' The Corner-Stone of Jubilee College,' of April 
 3d, 1839. 
 
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 *** And your petitioner will ever pray, that God may bless the people 
 <of Illinois. {Signed] Philander Chase. 
 
 "Norwich, Conn. Nov. 26, 1844." 
 
 This petition, together with the address referred to in its last 
 paragraph, was in the hands of the gentleman who introdnced the 
 hill ; and it is presumed both were read at least before the committee 
 to whom the bill was referred. 
 
 But the annotator asserts that the Bishop did not, in his application 
 for a charter, "define his wants in any way; (could this have been 
 " through fear lest they should be granted ?) but leaving it for the 
 ** legislature, composed of a mixed body of men, a majority of whom 
 " knew little of his plans and less perhaps of his wishes, to create 
 " and pass such an act as — he might with some plausibility reject." 
 
 It is not known from what source the annotator drew Ms information, 
 but it is to be presumed it was from the address of Bishop Chase to 
 his Convention in 1645. In this the petition was printed in full; and 
 of the address the annotator might also have availed himself. A 
 simple reference to these show that the assertion th Bi lop Chase 
 "did not define his wants," as well as the interroga ti ould this 
 have been through fear lest they should have be .1.'" are 
 
 both made without the least regard to truth. Bishop Chi • 's wants 
 were well defined, and there was no fear lest they sh \ granted. 
 
 No petition could be more explicit than the one pre No deed 
 
 of immunities, no charter of rights and privilege I i>c more 
 
 definitely expressed than the-one contained in the ad ie laving 
 
 ■of the corner-stone. 
 
 The following letter, if any were necessary, a Iditional 
 
 evidence of good faith on the part of the Bishop in the ter of the 
 charter : 
 
 " Springfield 1 -U7. 
 ** Rev. S. Chase : 
 
 "Dear Brother — Having learned that you rticing, 
 
 through the press, a certain annoymous >amph'et, • i v >l 
 
 to some extent in this Diocese, and ckaracterize r unfiir- 
 
 ness, not to say malignity, towards the Bishop ^igerl 
 
 with him in the effort to buil i up Fu >i: - !ol ■ i : 
 
 duty on my part, as well as of justice to him, to i n • its 
 tending to vindicate him fr >m the charge (see n t ) w'no
 
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 having acted in good faith in his original application to the legislature 
 for a charter. 
 
 "To the unprejudiced, the success of his recent application and the 
 provisions of the act of incorporation will be a sufficient vindication. 
 To all others you may say, it was known to me that he was prevented 
 making application two years earlier than he did, only from a convic- 
 tion, not peculiar to himself, that such application would be unavailing. 
 Previous to, or during the early part of, the session of 1842— 3, I ex- 
 amined, at Bishop Chase's request, all the acts which had then been 
 passed in this state for incorporating colleges and other similar institu- 
 tions, and forwarded to him copies and abstracts, so far as necessary 
 to enable him to judge of their character ; and as they all contained a 
 proviso to the effect that no theological professorship should be allowed 
 in connection with such institutions, he very naturally thought the 
 effort to procure such a charter as he desired would be fruitless, and 
 hence refrained from making it. 
 
 " In the former part of the session of 1844-5, 1 received from him a 
 letter, written at Norwich, Ct., and covering a petition to the legisla- 
 ture of that winter, in which he asked a charter for his college. The 
 petition was in no respect equivocal, but clearly stated what the founder 
 had done, and what he desired. In it reference was made to his 
 " address at laying the corner-stone," and a part o( that address was 
 directed to be read or incorporated with it. This petition, with the 
 letter enclosing it, as requested, I immediately put into the hands of a 
 member, who the previous summer had conditionally undertaken the 
 management of it. At a subsequent interview (at that time he was 
 too much engaged for any conversation,) he told me he would suggest 
 two or three alterations in the petition, and then present it. He in- 
 formed me also that a bill, very liberal in its provisions, was in progress 
 through the senate for incorporating a Roman Catholic college or 
 university, (St. Mary's of the Lake,) and that he had no doubt a similar 
 charter could be obtained for Jubilee College. 
 
 " The journal of the house furnishes no evidence that the petition 
 was ever presented. It shows, however, that a bill for incorporating 
 the college was, on leave, introduced by the gentleman to whom the 
 petition had been committed. That bill, after being amended in com- 
 mittee and in the house, became a law. 
 
 " Why what satisfied Bishop Quarter was not satisfactory to Bishop 
 Chase, may be seen by reference to the address of the latter to the 
 Convention of 1845. It was not such a charter as he had asked for, 
 and in some of its provisions was altogether at variance with certain 
 fundamental principles laid down by him in his " address at the laying 
 of the corner-stone." How much truth there is in the statements and 
 surmises of the anonymous pamphleteer, in the note referred to, I need 
 not attempt further to show. 
 
 " I remain, very sincerely, your friend and brother, 
 
 " Charles Dkesseb." 
 
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 And what response did the legislature make to the foregoing petition? 
 A charter was granted, but in many of its essential features the very 
 opposite of the one prayed for. It set aside many principles essential 
 to the very existence of the institution, and laid down others in positive 
 contrariety to the basis of its foundation. And yet, in reference to the 
 proposed charter, the annotator says, " The legislature listened with 
 " favor to the prayer of the Rt. Rev. petitioner, and passed for him an 
 " act of incorporation exceedingly liberal in its provisions, but which, 
 " as many, who understood Bishop Chase, predicted, was, with a 
 " formidable show of reason, rejected." 
 
 If by the term "exceedingly liberal," the annotator meant that, so 
 far as the charter was concerned, the institution might be made sub- 
 servient to the propagation of other doctrines than those of the Church, 
 he is undoubtedly correct ; but if otherwise, the assertion is entirely 
 truthless. And whether there was only " a formidable show of rea- 
 son," or real and substantial grounds for its rejection, let the following 
 show : 
 
 " TO THE HON. THE COUNCIL OF REVISION IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, NOW IN SESSION IN SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 " Gentlemen : The undersigned begs leave, most respectfully, tore- 
 quest your honorable body not to approve and pass into a law the bill 
 now before you for the incorporation of Jubilee College ; the same being, 
 in several most important particulars, contrary to the will of the donors, 
 and the express declaration of that will, made and published by the 
 founder. 
 
 " Most sincerely does the undersigned regret, that he was, by una r 
 voidable duties, compelled to be absent from the state when the petition 
 for giving to the trustees of Jubilee College, to be named in his last 
 will and testament, a corporate capacity, was made known to the legis- 
 lature. Had he been present, the undersigned has just grounds to 
 believe that he could, by explaining the facts, the motives, and the law 
 of equity, have prevented the objectionable clauses in the bill as it is ; 
 or if not so happy, at least, by making known his conscientious objec- 
 tions, to have saved the time and expense to the state, in thus needlessly 
 passing the bill in form through the assembly and senate. Jubilee 
 College, like all other eleemosynary institutions, is the child of Benev- 
 
 ■nce. It received its first germ of existence from the alms and obla- 
 tions of charitable persons of one age, for the benefit of the rising gen- 
 erations of other ages to come. Its breath, and legal continuity of being, 
 it receives and enjoys by virtue of deeds of land and property, or what 
 is known in law by ' cestui qui trust,' or by power of incorporation grant- 
 ed by an enlightened legislature. The former is what the institution
 
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 already enjoys : the latter was the prayer of the petition of the under- 
 signed, as presented (he trusts) by Mr. Arnold, of Chicago. 
 
 " In either case, as above named, the will of the donors, when made 
 known and publicly declared by the founders to be the basis of all dona- 
 tions, cannot be altered, nor its nature violated, either by individuals 
 who hold the trust or corporation, or by the civil legislature, which, for 
 want of due information, may attempt to guide its destinies. The whole 
 constitution of such eleemosynary institutions, is of the nature of con- 
 tracts between one generation and another, and, as such, involve the 
 dearest interests of civilized man. 
 
 " The undersigned begs leave to refer the honorable the council of 
 revision to the address made by him at the laying of the corner-stone 
 of Jubilee chapel, as containing an explanation of the principles which 
 guide him, and as an apology for his conscientious refusing of the char- 
 ter referred to. 
 
 " The contrast between it and the deed of donation, grounded on the 
 will of the donors, which deed is now incorporated in his ' last will and 
 testament,'soon to be consummated by death, may be seen by the follow, 
 ing instrument, copied by one of the students of Jubilee, from the judg, 
 ment of the Rev. Samuel Chase, the principal of the school, who, at 
 the request of the undersigned, kindly consented, a few hours ago, to 
 give his opinion. 
 
 [copy.] 
 " ' Extracts from the Bishop's Address, and the charter passed by the 
 legislature, showing, that the fundamental and essential principles of the 
 deed of foundation would he set aside by the acceptance of the proposed 
 charter. 
 
 " 'ADDRESS AT LAYING THE CORNER-STONE. " ' PROPOSED CHARTER. 
 
 " ' The Bishop of the diocese " ' The corporation (i. e. the 
 shall be ex officio president of the trustees) shall have power to em- 
 institution and of the board of ploy and appoint a president or 
 trustees, and shall nominate the principal for such institution, and 
 professors, teachers, and other offi- such professors and teachers as 
 cers of the college and corporation ; they may deem proper, 
 and the trustees shall, by a major- 
 ity of votes taken by ballot, approve 
 the said nominations. The num- 
 ber of trustees shall never exceed 
 seven, besides the Bishop, and shall 
 never be less than three, a majori- 
 ty of whom shall be clergymen in 
 foil orders. 
 
 " Trustees will be nominated as " ' Such corporation shall have 
 vacancies shall occur, by the Bish- power to fill such vacancies in their 
 op, for the time being ; which nom- own body as may happen by death, 
 ination shall be confirmed by the resignation or otherwise. 
 Convention of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church of the Diocese of II-
 
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 linois. A clergyman ceases to be 
 a trustee when he is canonically 
 degraded, and a layman when he is 
 excommunicated from the Church. 
 
 "'The by-laws shall be made "' The corporation shall have pow- 
 by the trustees, and approved by er to make and alter, from time to 
 the Bishop. time, such by-laws as they may 
 
 deem necessary. 
 
 '" All impeachments of trustees, "'Should the trustees at any 
 being for abuse of trust reposed in time violate the provisions of this 
 them, shall be preferred before the act, or use the power hereby con- 
 civil court, and the trial be conduct- ferred for any other than the liter- 
 ed by a committee duly appointed ary purposes above set forth, they 
 by the Convention of the Diocese shall forfeit the same ; and, upon 
 of Illinois ; and if the reus, or ac- complaint being made to the cir- 
 cused person, be found guilty of cuit court of Peoria county, a scire 
 the abuse of trust, he shall be no facias shall issue, and the court 
 longer a trustee. shall proceed to hear the same ; 
 
 and if it shall be determined that 
 any of the provisions of this act 
 have been violated, the charter 
 shall thereafter be declared for- 
 feited. 
 
 " And provided it be made to " ' The right is hereby reserved 
 appear before the court having ju- to the legislature to amend or mcd- 
 risdiction thereof, that these con- ify, alter or repeal, this act, when- 
 ditions are not fulfilled, and the ever in its opinion the public good 
 funds given or devoted to other may require it.' 
 purposes than those designated by 
 the donors and founders, it shall and 
 may be lawful for the governor of 
 the state of Illinois, for the time 
 being, to compel the trustees to 
 make amends for the damage done, 
 and give bonds for the due perform- 
 ance of their duties in future. 
 
 " ' The above are some of the instances in which principles essential 
 to the very existence of the institution, and made the basis of its dona- 
 tion to the Church, are set aside by the proposed charter. The Bishop 
 of the Diocese, instead of being ex-officio president, is not by the 
 charter necessarily even a trustee. The qualifications of trustees are 
 wholly disregarded. So far as the charter is concerned, there is no 
 security against the contingency, that, after several elections, by self- 
 perpetuation the whole institution may be under other than the control 
 of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 1 " ' There is a wide difference between a scire facias issued on 
 complaint of an irresponsible person, which may issue in a forfeiture 
 of chartered privileges on the part of the institution, and one obtained 
 by persons 'duly appointed,' and which compels restitution on the part
 
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 of delinquent trustees. The one may be fatal, the other can only be 
 sanative. 
 
 " 'The whole tendency of the provisions of the charter is to take 
 the institution ■ out of the Church,' and place it ' in the world.' Under 
 such circumstances, the founder could not accept the proposed char- 
 ter without an abandonment of the very purpose and design of its 
 foundation. 
 
 " ' The right of repeal, as claimed, is in itself an insuperable bar 
 to acceptance, and any recognition of such a right, by acceptance of 
 a charter making such claim, would be an act of/e/o de se. } 
 
 " That God may grant to your honors a long life, and to our beloved 
 State a liberal and enlightened policy, is the prayer of your friend and 
 humble servant, the undersigned. 
 
 " Jubilee College, Feb. 4, 1845." 
 
 "Philander Chase. 
 
 The foregoing affords good and substantial reasons for rejecting a 
 charter like the one proposed ; and in its rejection an honest and 
 unprejudiced mind will find some other motive for the line of conduct 
 adopted by Bishop Chase, than the one assigned by the annotator, 
 namely, that "the property must remain as before, with the legal 
 ownership in the Bishop." 
 
 Bishop Chase could not have accepted a charter containing provi- 
 sions so variant with the avowed object of the institution and the 
 principles of its foundation, without becoming recreant to the trust 
 reposed in him, and rendering himself liable to prosecution on the 
 grounds of forfeiture. 
 
 Had Bishop Chase accepted the proposed charter, he would, in sO 
 doing, have abandoned his trust — and, so far as the Church was con- 
 cerned, repudiated the college — and its legal ownership become vested 
 in the world. All good and pious men, every benefactor of the col- 
 lege, will warmly thank Bishop Chase for not accepting a charter, 
 which might ultimately have thrown the institution into the embrace 
 of any sect whatever, from the Romanist down to the Mormon. 
 
 There is still another consideration which belongs to this portion 
 of the college history. It is this : that the property of the institution, 
 from first to last, has been confided to the Bishop, with a full know- 
 ledge, on the part of the donors, of the difficulty of procuring a suitable 
 charter, and the almost utter impossibility of managing successfully an 
 institution in its incipient stages of growth through a corporate body. 
 The property has been confided to him, " with a full reliance on his
 
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 integrity to use it while living," and to bequeath it, when dying, 
 according to the will of the donors, " solely for the benefit of the in- 
 tended institution ; " leaving it discretionary with him whether the 
 right of the trustees, under such bequest, shall be what is known in 
 the law by " cestui qui trust," or by power of incorporation. This 
 was the condition of donation of all the English funds, formally 
 expressed in writing on the part of the donors, ere the funds were 
 removed to this country. The same is implied in the case of all the 
 donations made at the south, in 1839—40, since these were made 
 notwithstanding the efforts used to prevent donations on the ground 
 that " they might go to the Bishop's heirs at law." * 
 
 * Extract of a letter from Bishop Chase to Mrs. Sophia M. Chase, dated 
 
 Charlestown, April 29, 184(h 
 
 "You must know that Bishop Ives (and a few days since I myself) received a 
 letter speaking of a ' rumor,' coming from a ' respectable quarter,' that it was not 
 safe to give to Jubilee, because there was no provision made (though he acknow- 
 ledged there was a provision spoken of,) in my Corner-stone, for the passing of 
 the lands and property of Jubilee into the hands of the Church. At the same 
 time I received a letter from James F. De Peyster, of New- York, stating that he 
 had met with the same objection, with this additional complaint, that I was the 
 manager, sole manager, unaccountable to any one but common report. 
 
 " To meet the former part of this objection, I have written a letter to Bishop 
 Ives, and a copy of the same I have caused to be sent to all the religious periodi- 
 cals, stating what I did just before I left the Robin's Nest, viz., made my will, 
 and in it appointed trustees, and given an exact and full account of all the pro- 
 perty, both real and personal, belonging to the college, and that this will was the 
 printed pamphlet, with a codieil, to which, and to every important part of which, 
 my name was and is annexed, with my sign manual, the whole being witnessed 
 by competent persons and sealed. 
 
 " This letter was sent to all the periodicals. That to Dr. Seabury, the editor 
 of the Churchman, was inclosed in a letter to Mr. J. F. De Peyster, and on the 
 envelope I stated that I am the sole manager, and, under God, the sole parent 
 of this institution, as I had been of Gambier and Kenyon, and that I must be so, 
 or these institutions never would have been born nor ever could be carried on ; that 
 there was little reason for envy or jealousy or malice against me ; for this trust, 
 which the public was so good as to repose in me, would be of short duration ; the 
 time was fast approaching when my eye would be closed on the scenes of malice 
 around me, and my ear deaf to the voice of Slander, reposing in the grave, ' where 
 the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.' 
 
 " What effect these communications may have I know not. Committing the 
 whole to God's guidance and blessing, I rest content. One thing I exceedingly 
 regret, — that your pure mind and unshaken integrity seems to be impugned by 
 these clouds and threatening storms from the north. I have taken occasion, how- 
 ever, every where, to state so many particulars in which your self-sacrifices are 
 and have been manifested, and your devotion to the Church's best interest, disre- 
 garding every personal comfort, and alienating yourself so much from the society 
 o e your equals, that you might glorify God in being the instrument of great good 
 to the souls of men, beyond a question, that little is to be feared from envious and 
 misguided men- The faithful among our dear Chuich people at the south will 
 have your name in everlasting remembrance, and your virtues in the tablet of 
 their hearts. For your sake I believe many of the favors to me originate."
 
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 Nor is it probable that any donations have since been made on 
 other conditions or with any other expectation. In 1843, in the 
 "Review of Jubilee College," it was expressly declared that no ex- 
 pectation was cherished of obtaining an act of incorporation from the 
 legislature, and that the Bishop relied solely upon deeds of trust for 
 perpetuating the institution. And besides all this, the enemies of the 
 instituti ,: have been too industrieus in circulating their suspicions and 
 whispering their surmises, to allow even the widow tocast in her mite, 
 without .ring warned that she was giving it to one from whom noble, 
 generous, and christian men, had exacted no bond. 
 
 Ami has this confidence, thus reposed in Bishop Chase, by the pious 
 and munificent, both in England and America, been misplaced? 
 Have th< expenditures been extravagant, or the investments unpro- 
 ductive ' In this respect at least, Jubilee boasts herself, and challenges 
 conip.'ii -un with other institutions. Had Bishop Chase, in the earlier 
 days of ihe institution, thrown its management, — in its location, its 
 invest i t s , the erection of its buildings, the appointment of its 
 teacl iid agents, — into the hands of a corporate body; — had he 
 
 done tie question may be seriously asked, Where now would 
 
 have b( en the college ? It would most undoubtedly have been where 
 Kemper College now is. The question is answered by a reference to 
 the i. holy fate of that institution, not in the way of accusing any 
 
 one of incapacity or dishonesty in its management, but because a like 
 fate must almost inevitably attend any Church institution which accepts 
 a cha • similar to that of Kemper College, or the one offered to 
 Jubilei College, in 1844-5. 
 
 The .. y m mainhig question touching the title of the property, i. e. 
 the in • ■::;• ncy through which the Church shall exercise control 
 over the : s'ilution, is one of mere fact; but the annotator of the 
 pampl ifFects to regard it as one of principle. In an entire misap- 
 prehei of the matter, he affects to create an alarm by ringing 
 
 the cha yes upon the terms "right and control." He asserts that 
 " the Church in Illinois has no right in Jubilee College, and no control 
 " ove: " . " that "neither the buildings nor the lands appertaining to 
 " Juli ■ College are now under the control of the Church, ought to be 
 " every where distinctly known." 
 
 In reference to all this it may be fairly argued that the above asser-
 
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 tions, and all others of a like character, proceed upon an assumption 
 entirely false, i. e. that the only mediate agency through which the 
 Church in Illinois can exercise right or control over Jubilee College, 
 is the acts of its convention — the acts of a body which has no legal 
 existence. It can neither sue nor be sued. Its committees can only 
 act, in all things pertaining to the ownership of property, on their own 
 individual responsibility. By identifying the right of the Church in 
 Jubilee College, and its control over its property, with the acts of the 
 Diocesan Convention, the annotator has presented a false issue. The 
 question is not whether the Bishop is under obligation " to surrender 
 to that body the property belonging to Jubilee College ; " but whether 
 the Church does through any agency possess a title in Jubilee College, 
 and is enabled to control its destinies. 
 
 That this should never be an open question — that in all respects it 
 should be an unequivocally " ruled case " — has, of all other points, 
 commanded the attention and influenced the conduct of Bishop Chase 
 in every step he has taken in reference to the college. Had the most 
 distant idea been entertained that this could not or would not be effect- 
 ed, no college would have existed. Bishop Chase would never have 
 subjected himself to the labors, persecutions, indignities and rebuffs, 
 which he has encountered in his efforts in behalf of the college ; nor 
 would his personal friends, and the pious and liberal of the Church, 
 have supported his hands and stayed his feeble knees by their sympa- 
 thies and their noble gifts. 
 
 And has the confidence thus trustingly placed in Bishop Chase been 
 abused ? Has Jubilee College, by any act of his, ceased to be an 
 institution of the Church — passed from its control ? Let the solemn 
 declarations made in the deed of foundation, incorporated as part and 
 parcel of his last will and testament — let the considerations on account 
 of which he declined the charter offered him in 1844—5 — answer the 
 quesdon. The truth is, it has been this very principle which has pre- 
 served the institution " right of the Church in Jubilee College, and 
 power to control its property." And in the present instance the prin- 
 ciple has, through the agency of the only permanent Diocesan office, 
 exerted a most wholesome and salutary influence. The assertion, then, 
 that the Church has no right in Jubilee College, and no control over it, 
 is void of all truth. All the control which the Church hitherto could 
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 have exercised over Jubilee College, for any salutary purpose, 
 has been exercised. Had the " right of the Church in Jubilee College," 
 been vested in the Diocesan Convention, as such ; had all control 
 over its property, except such as might have been exercised through 
 that body, been abandoned, on the part of the Hishop, to its committees 
 or trustees acting under any charter which might have been procured ; 
 Jubilee College would have beenclassed among "western speculations." 
 This is not asserted as in disparagement of any ; but as the inevitable 
 result of contingencies over which neither the Church nor its Conven- 
 tion could have had control. All know this : the Church in Illinois 
 knows it : all business-like men will affirm it. 
 
 But the author of the pamphlet, in the text, says : " As there was no 
 " corporate body, or any individual, at the time legally authorized to 
 " hold lands for the college, the Bishop very properly took out the 
 " patents in his own name ; and those patents contain no conditions of 
 " trust for the college." — " It appears, then, that the whole is as much 
 " under his control and disposal as his farm in Michigan, and would, 
 " if left in this situation until his demise, as surely descend to his heirs 
 " at law." And the annotator, in his notes, says : " The argument of 
 " the text has been pronounced conclusive by the most able jurists, 
 " and should therefore cause the Church in Illinois to awake to the 
 " subject of her interest in Jubilee College and claim her rights, and 
 " the friends of that Church abroad to insist that some immediate 
 " steps be taken to put her legally in possession of what is really 
 " hers ! " — " The fair and honest course now is for the Bishop to 
 " account for all that he has received or disbursed on account of Jubilee 
 " College to the Convention of his Diocese, and surrender to that body 
 " what is rightfully its own." 
 
 The extract from the text contains a manifest equivocation. The 
 author argues : " The Bishop, having no act of incorporation, pur- 
 " chased the lands for the college in his own name ; therefore they 
 " would inevitably descend to his heirs at law." This is the whole 
 gist of the argument of the text. 
 
 To a prejudiced mind and vitiated heart, some occurrences in 
 morals may appear possible, and therefore inevitable ; but not so to 
 the honest and upright. Were there no subsequent acts on the part 
 of Bishop Chase, which would have interrupted this entailment of the
 
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 property upon his heirs at law ? The author of the pamphlet well 
 knew there were. The deed of foundation, — the address at the laying 
 of the corner-stone, — was in his possession : nor was the annotator so 
 profoundly ignorant of this : he further knew that this deed of founda- 
 tion had been authoritatively declared to be incorporated as part and 
 parcel of the founder's last will and testament. 
 
 As to the call upon " the Church in Illinois to awake to the subject 
 of her interest in Jubilee College and claim her rights ; " it may be 
 asked, Who withholds from her any rights she has in Jubilee College ? 
 She has all. ' She enjoys all the benefits it can confer. It has been 
 cast into her bosom. Let her preserve and cherish it as the child of 
 benevolence, the object of many prayers and of untold blessings. 
 
 And as to the fair and honest course so gratuitously marked out by 
 the annotator for Bishop Chase to follow — to account for his receipts 
 and disbursements on account of Jubilee College to the Convention of 
 his Diocese, and to surrender to that body what is rightfully its own ; 
 — it may be asked, by what authority the call is made ? Where is 
 the deed in which the property of Jubilee College becomes " rightfully " 
 that of the Convention 1 
 
 It was never the design of the donors or the intention of the founder 
 that this institution should be under the immediate control of that body. 
 When on his visit to England, Bishop Chase, being asked what was 
 the nature of the institution which he wished to establish in Illinois, 
 replied, " The same as that which he founded in Ohio : the only dif- 
 ference will be in the mode of effecting the object, and in the guards 
 for security against abuse or perversion." In Ohio, as is well known, 
 he had thrown the collections he had made into the lap of the Con- 
 vention — an act which subsequent events rendered matter of great 
 regret, — without taking sufficient security that the funds would be 
 used according to the will of the founder and donors.* 
 
 In Illinois, he kept, as was mutually agreed upon, the funds in his 
 own hands, until the charter should be granted securing to the con- 
 stituted authorities the power, not of doing as they pleased, but of 
 
 * For more <ull information upon this point, i. o. the necessity for some additional 
 " guards for security against abuse or perversion," the reader is referred to the 7th 
 number of Bishop Chase's Reminiscences, where he will find the whole matter 
 fully and most satisfactorily set forth.
 
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 carrying into effect those principles of the Church which are known 
 and acknowledged by all. All the power which a body, constituted 
 like the Convention of a Diocese, can exercise over the institution for 
 its good, has been guarantied to that body, and of that power it will 
 never be deprived. The precise character of this power may be seen 
 by a reference to the charter granted Bishop Chase for Jubilee College 
 by the present legislature, 1846-7. In the provisions of this charter 
 so freely granted by the present legislature and so gratefully accepted 
 by Bishop Chase, an ample vindication of the firm and unyielding 
 course pursued by the Bishop may be found. By it the property of 
 the college is secured to the Church beyond a contingency, so that 
 what before was a question in equity, is now a point in law. Of the 
 " legal ownership," it may now be said, it is " res adjudicata" and 
 the usual privileges and immunities of theological and literary institu- 
 tions are guarantied. 
 
 In th^line of conduct adopted by Bishop Chase, which has resulted 
 in the procuring of a charter like the one which the college now en- 
 joys, all has been consistent ; all has been characterized by honesty 
 of purpose and integrity of conduct. It is true he has been surrounded 
 by difficulties and encountered many obstacles ; but by perseverance, 
 and, above all, by an unwavering faith in the motto so peculiarly 
 characteristic of his life, " Jehovah-jireh ! " he has neither swerved 
 from his purpose nor abandoned his trust. Scarcely was the project 
 of a Theological Seminary in Illinois, under the auspices of Bishop 
 Chase, announced to the Christian world, ere from certain quarters 
 there were indications of hostility. Spirits long dormant, were evoked 
 from their slumbers, and sent upon their peculiar missions. In almost 
 every step of his progress, Bishop Chase has encountered them, and 
 their doings, their evil surmises, their whispered suspicions, their 
 secret machinations and open allegations. All who are acquainted 
 with the history of Jubilee College know these things. They were 
 done in the Church, and are not unknown to the world. But notwith- 
 standing this, the Church, as a whole, have sustained and encouraged 
 Bishop Chase, and bid him God speed. Nothwithstanding the affected 
 distrust of some, the cold looks and discouraging words of others, the 
 pious and liberal throughout the land have reposed confidence in his 
 honesty and integrity, in full reliance upon his known character for
 
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 probity and uprightness, for zeal and devotion to the cause of religion 
 and learning. They have placed at his disposal large donations for 
 disbursement. And has Bishop Chase been unmindful of his respon- 
 sibility in this respect ? Has he become false to his trust ? Is he 
 about to cover his own head with infamy, plunge his family into 
 irretrievable disgrace, and, in dying, contradict the whole tenor of his 
 life? And yet, what is the implied charge running throughout the 
 text of the pamphlet, and reiterated in the notes ? It is a deliberate 
 appropriation of an eleemosynary fund to his own behoof, and as a 
 legacy to his heirs at law. The language may sometimes be guarded 
 — the expressions disguised; but the imputation of the pamphlet 
 amounts to this. And this charge — in all its hues, in all its phases — 
 is most solemnly denied. It is thrown back, unsustained by a shadow 
 of evidence, upon those who make it. 
 
 There is something in the character of a man, after a long life of 
 usefulness to his fellow beings, of devotion to the welfare of the Church 
 and the honor of God, that wards off the shafts of calumny — that shields 
 him from the assassin-like attacks of an anonymous enemy. All good 
 people feel and know this. Every pious and faithful heart ahhors and 
 loathes that man, who either in ignorance or malice assails the hon- 
 esty or integrity of such a man by calumnies and false allegations. 
 
 But Bishop Chase, in purging himself from so foul a charge, would 
 not throw himself upon his general character ; he would not invoke the 
 intervention of that good reputation for honesty and fidelity which he 
 has hitherto enjoyed, to shield him from the consequences of the spe- 
 cific allegations of the pamphlet. While he with all proper indignation 
 denies the charge, and throws it back upon those who prefer it, he does 
 not shrink before a single specification or allegation contained either 
 in the text or notes of the pamphlet. 
 
 The specifications by which the charge is sought to be sustained 
 are allegations touching the present condition of the Church in the 
 Diocese ; the past and present position of the college as an auxiliary 
 to the Church ; and the appropriation of funds given for charitable 
 objects, in the disbursement of which the Bishop has any voice. For 
 instance : 
 
 The annotator asserts that the college " serves as a grand vortex, in
 
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 " which are swallowed up all the time, attention, and efforts of the 
 " Bishop, and all the funds that can be raised for the Church in Illi- 
 " nois, both in the Diocese and out of it ;" and that while " the Bishop, 
 " represents the Church in his Diocese as flourishing," yet the "fact" 
 is, " the number of presbyters canonically settled in Illinois is not greater 
 " than it was six years ago." 
 
 The first allegation is false in the extreme. It contains a false as- 
 sertion, and a manifest suppression of the truth. The college is not 
 a vortex in which are engulfed the labors of the Bishop and all the 
 funds raised for the Church in Illinois. Every man, who has the least 
 knowledge of Church affairs in Illinois, knows this to be an untruth. 
 Has the Bishop performed no missionary labors in his vast Diocese ? 
 Have no churches been built therein 1 Have no clergymen been sus- 
 tained 1 Are the labors of the Bishop — his contributions to the Church 
 in all parts of the Diocese — his gifts to missionaries laboring in desti- 
 tute parishes — to be regarded as nothing 1 The assertion is freely made, 
 and that, too, in the deepest conviction of its truth, that the condition 
 of the Church generally in Illinois, so far as regards the number of 
 church edifices, organized parishes, number of communicants, num- 
 ber of clergy and means of their support, is far more favorable than it 
 would have been had Jubilee College knoAvn no existence. It has been 
 and is a fountain whence has flowed many blessings to the Church in 
 Illinois. And in this fact lies the suppressio veri in the allegation. 
 
 As to the comparative number of " presbyters canonically settled in 
 the Diocese," at the present time and six years ago, the allegation is 
 equally false. Six years ago (1840), the number of presbyters canon- 
 ically settled in the Diocese was nine, and this number included every 
 clergyman then resident. In June 1846, the number of presbyters 
 canonically settled in the Diocese was twelve : add to this the number 
 of deacons, three, and those " settled" and laboring in the Diocese, 
 though not canonically transferred, three ; and the total is eighteen, 
 double the number " six years ago." 
 
 According to the list of clergy as it now stands, (March 1847), there 
 are belonging to the Diocese 21 ; and of these, 20 are canonically set- 
 tled ; only two of them are deacons : so that at the present time the 
 " number of presbyters canonically settled" is eighteen — double the 
 number of" six years ago." So much for the accuracy of the annota- 

 
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 tor in statistics. And yet assertions like the above are put forward as 
 evidence that the Bishop has falsely represented the Church in Illinois 
 as flourishing, entirely overlooking and utterly disregarding the reports 
 of the faithful missionaries and other clergy in the Diocese, all of which 
 exhibit an increase in the number of Church edifices, congregations, 
 communicants, confirmations and baptisms, in as great a ratio as any 
 Diocese west of the mountains. The number of clergy now perma- 
 nently resident and laboring faithfully, compared with the number six 
 years ago, is more than doubled, and the number of communicants is 
 more than threefold. What then becomes of the imputation of the 
 pamphlet, and what will honest men say of the evidence adduced in 
 support of it ? 
 
 In almost every assertion the annotator is singularly at fault. He 
 either betrays his entire ignorance or manifests an utter disregard of 
 truth. The following for instance : 
 
 " Bishop Chase represents Jubilee College as a flourishing literary 
 " and theological institution, whilst the fact is, it is a mere school 
 " for boys, who in no considerable numbers are induced to go there, 
 " with now and then one who is called a student in theology." " Nor 
 " is the Church in Illinois, on the whole, benefitted by it. The evils 
 " which she suffers through it so far counterbalance the little good 
 " accomplished, as to cause it to be regarded as a blight and a curse," 
 and it " is literally eschewed as an evil." As to the first assertion, 
 the annotator may shield himself under the plea of ignorance. He 
 has neither personal knowledge nor accurate information of any kind 
 to insure confidence in his statements. He was never upon the col- 
 lege hill, and absolutely knows nothing of the institution or its inmates 
 whom he so rudely assails. The universal declaration of those who 
 have visited the institution, and become acquainted with its internal 
 arrangements, the course of studies, the standard of scholarship, the 
 christian-like deportment of the young men, is one of unqualified 
 approbation. The number of pupils for the most part of the time has 
 been fully equal to the accommodations in the way of rooms and culi- 
 nary arrangements. The course of studies prescribed and pursued 
 here in the collegiate department, embracing a period of four years, 
 is as full as that of any college in the United States, and the standard 
 of scholarship insisted on, ere the young men pass to their degrees, is
 
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 beneath that of none. And though the college is yet in its infancy, 
 having been in existence less than six years, yet scarce an instance 
 can be cited of an institution attaining so high a standing in so brief a 
 period of existence. In the theological department, seven have pur- 
 sued their studies and received orders : there are now seven members 
 who are candidates for orders. At the expiration of the current 
 academical year four young men will receive their baccalaureate who 
 have here pursued their entire collegiate course. 
 
 Now all these are facts with which the annotator might have ac- 
 quainted himself, and was in duty bound so to do ere he sold himself 
 to the infamous purpose of libelling an object of so many prayers and 
 so many blessings. The ruthless onslaught which has thus been 
 made upon the pious youths and self-denying young men, who are 
 here preparing themselves for useful stations in the Church and 
 honorable professions in the world, will fall harmless upon its objects, 
 and reverberate with double force upon him who makes it. 
 
 As to the latter allegation, that the college is " regarded as a blight 
 and a curse," and " is literally eschewed as an evil," no plea of igno- 
 rance can avail the annotator. It is as false in fact as it is malicious 
 in design. It wittingly imprecates a curse, where God has blessed. 
 No occurrences have taken place, either in the college or in the 
 Church, calculated even to suggest such a thought ; while on the 
 contrary, the expression of opinion, both of the laity and clergy, 
 throughout the Diocese, individually and collectively, has been the 
 reverse. 
 
 The following resolutions, entered upon the journal of the Conven- 
 tion, are brought forward under the solemn conviction that they have 
 been, and at the present time are, truthful expressions of the mind of 
 the Church in Illinois. There may be individual and solitary excep- 
 tions, as will be hereafter intimated in the history of the report upon 
 so much of the Bishop's address as related to Jubilee College in 1846, 
 viz. : 
 
 EXTRACT FROM JOURNAL 1839. 
 
 "The committee appointed upon so much of the Bishop's address as 
 related to the subject ot Jubilee College, reported as follows : 
 
 " The committee appointed to take into consideration so much of 
 the Bishop's address as relates to Jubilee College report, that they 

 
 2D 
 
 have had the same under consideration, and as an expression of their 
 confidpr.ee in its venerable founder, as well as in its beneficial influ- 
 ence np< n the interests and prospects of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church in Illinois, respectfully submit to the Convention the following 
 resolution : 
 
 '• Iicroh-rd. That this Convention have heard with lively interest 
 and sa refaction the statements of the Right Rev. the Bishop of the 
 Dioce e, in reference to the measuies adopted by him, for the estab- 
 lishment therein of an institution foi the promotion of religion and 
 learning, in connection with the Church, to be known as Jubilee 
 College, and that, with the fullest confidence in the great and increas- 
 ing henel.ts to result from the establishment of such an insti'ition, the 
 samf be commended to the patronage and support of all t'13 friends 
 of religion and the Church both here and elsewhe v e. 
 
 " Rev. I. W. Hallam, J. H. Kinzie, 
 
 " C. Dresser, Dr. A. Cornish. 
 
 " A. H. Cornish, 
 
 M On motion, Resolved That the above report be accepted." 
 
 EXTKACT FFOM JOURNAL 1841. 
 
 " 4. ResohwJ. That the members of this Convention have heard 
 with great satisfaction the address of the Right Rev. Bishop, especially 
 in relation to the funds which he has been enabled to procure for the 
 endowment of Jubilee College; and while they would humble them- 
 selves in gratitude to Almighty Cod for his goodness in moving the 
 heart- of distant brethren to give of their substance, they also express 
 to the world their entire c< ni.dence in the ability and integrity ot him 
 who has been the honored instrument of founding this institution." 
 
 EXTRACT FROM JOURNAL 1846. 
 
 "The committee to whom was referred so much of the Bishop's 
 address as relates to Jubilee Co'lege, made the following report, viz. : 
 
 il Galena, June 22. 1846. 
 
 " The committee to which was referred so much of the Bishop's 
 ae'dress as concerns Jubilee Col'ege, ask ^ave to report: 
 
 " That the e'erioa! and lay-members of this Convention have the 
 most lively interest in the posterity of that college; and that, as they 
 disavow all claim to any c. ntrol over it or to any right to inquire into 
 any act of the Bishop in relation thereto, as veste ! in this Convention ; 
 theref re, they teiuler to the Bishop most respectfully their thanks for 
 the information which he has vo'untari'y laid before them; and declare 
 their continued c n dence that the intentions of the donors to said 
 college will be carried into (ffi ct by him Wisely and faithfully. 
 
 " Tl ey uni'.e in p:ayer to God that life and health and moans may 
 be afforded to him to conduct this offspring of his last days to greater 
 vigor and maturity. "Charles Dresser, 
 
 " E. B. Kellogg, 
 "Jno T. Worthington. 
 
 " Which report was. on motion received, and the sentiments therein 
 expressed, were unanimous y adopted."
 
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 There are some circumstance? attending the resolution of 1846 
 necessary to be known in order that it may be understood. As early 
 as the Convention of 1845, a report was in circulation among its 
 members, on the first or second day, that a resolution, or a series of 
 resolutions, was about to be offered by a clerical member, calling in 
 question the propriety of the Bishop's conduct in relation to Jubilee 
 College. The resolution, or resolutions, were reduced to writing and 
 shown to individuals, most undoubtedly for the purpose of creating a 
 distrust, of which, when the resolution should formally curne before 
 the Convention, it was to be regarded as the expression, perhaps the 
 proof. But the resolution, whatever might have been its character, 
 was never presented. 
 
 Some few weeks previous to the Convention of 1846 a rumor was 
 sent abroad, that, on the approaching Convention, the aforesaid reso- 
 lution or resolutions would be introduced, and an effort made to carry 
 them. But on the assembling of the Convention nothing of the kind 
 was done, though the individual was present who was the prominent 
 actor in the affair of 1845. And hence the peculiar phraseology of 
 the report ; — J he Convention, as such, disavow all claim to any control 
 over the institution, or any right as vested i the Convention to inquire 
 into any act of the Bishop in relation thereto. 
 
 This report surely brought the question involved in the affair of 
 1845 directly before the Convention. 
 
 Why did not the feeling, that the institution was " a blight and a 
 curse" to the Diocese, so confidently averred to exist by the annotator 
 of the pamphlet, then avow itself? Why was it not then "literally es- 
 chewed as an evil ?" Why was not the fearful charge of the pamph- 
 let, and its untold specifications, then brought forward, and alledgcd in 
 bar of the adoption of the report and the passage of the resolution? 
 
 No illogical or unfair use is here made of the report in question. It 
 is a solemn averment, on the part of the Convention, of the utter falsity 
 of the entire pamphlet, text and notes. 
 , The truth is, that the pamphlet, in the various stages of its history, 
 notes and all, has been made the occasion of originating and calling 
 into existence allegations and charges, of which it is now to be brought 
 forward as evidence. 
 
 The pamphlet is no recent production. It is only the embodiment,
 
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 in a more tangible form, of the thousand vague rumors and insinuations 
 which were coeval with the earliest existence of the College. 
 
 Throughout the pamphlet an effort is studiously made to create an 
 impression that the confidence reposed in the Bishop by the pious and 
 liberal has been abused in the application of funds — that all moneys, in 
 the disbursement of which he has any influence, are so disposed of as 
 to contribute to his own support and that of his family, rather than the 
 Church ; viz : 
 
 ''Bishop Chase states, in the Journal of his Convention, 1845, the 
 "compensation allowed him by his beloved Diocese of Illinois, for the 
 " two years preceding, to be about 8199 ; thereby intimating that his 
 " salary for the time mentioned had been less than $100 per year; 
 " whilst the fact is, Bishop Chase received as salary for that same time, 
 "$1000 per year from the Domestic Missionary Committee, and for 
 " his support in his Episcopate, in donations from Sir Thomas Ackland 
 " and lady, and other known sources, about $2000 besides." 
 
 Bishop Chase, neither in language nor construction, makes any such 
 intimation as the one alledged. He was merely acknowledging the 
 amount which he had received from his own Diocese, and had no oc- 
 casion to refer to any other sums, had he received such from any source 
 whatever. 
 
 Bishop Chase did not, as alledged, receive " as salary for that same 
 " time $1000 per year from the Domestic Missionary Committee." His 
 salary from the Board of Missions commenced October 1st, 1844. The 
 moneys which he was then acknowledging, with the exception of $5, 
 wese all received previous to that time. This fact the annotator, with 
 characteristic accuracy in statistics, has entirely overlooked. 
 
 The latter part of the allegation, that Bishop Chase received for his 
 support in his Episcopate, for the same period of time, about $2000 
 besides, is entirely false. No such sums, from any source, known or 
 unknown, for his support in his Episcopate, or otherwise, were receiv- 
 ed by Bishop Chase. The connection of Sir Thomas Ackland and 
 lady's name with this affair is perfectly inexplicable. 
 
 The foregoing affords a fair instance of the annotator's accuracy in 
 statistics and candor in statements. He has committed a palpable 
 blunder in statistics : he has manifested an entire want of candor in 
 connecting the two occurrences, i. e. the sums given by his own Dio-
 
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 cese and the salary allowed him by the Board of Missions : he has 
 shown an entire disregard of truth in the matter of the " $2000 in do- 
 nations from Sir Thomas Ackland and lady and other known sources." 
 
 Bishop Chase does not hesitate to acknowledge that he has received, 
 at various times, many and liberal gifts iroin his friends both in Eng- 
 land and America ; and to this acknowledgment he is impelled by two 
 considerations, one of gratitude to his benefactors, the other of justice 
 to himself. Were he at liberty to name his benefactors, and the sums 
 given, his heart would be relieved of a burden of grateful emotions. 
 Nor could he withhold this acknowledgment in justice to himself; other- 
 wise it would be difficult for him to account for the sources whence he 
 has been enabled to make large donations, on his own account, to the 
 building of Churches and other benevolent objects in his Diocese. 
 But in all the sums which he has thus received, there has been no 
 occurrence to afford even an occasion of an allegation like the fore- 
 going, since the amount given by Bishop Chase to benevolent objects 
 in his Diocese exceeds the amount of personal gifts. 
 
 In close connection with the foregoing is the more than implied 
 charge that the funds, utensils, and teams of the college, have been 
 wrongfully applied to the improvement and cultivation of the Bishop's 
 farm ; viz.: " That this advantage (its enhanced value) arising to him- 
 " self and family, through the contiguity of his own farm to that of 
 " Jubilee College, and its appurtenances, have been considered by the 
 " Bishop, is not here asserted ; nor is it here said that the Bishop's 
 " excellent farm has been progressing to a high state of cultivation, 
 "through the instrumentality of the name, the funds, the utensils, the 
 " teams, the stock, or other property of the College, though there are 
 " some peculiar circumstances upon which light will be hereafter 
 " thrown." 
 
 The charge evidently implied in the above guarded language, that 
 the College has been rendered fraudulently instrumental in the im- 
 provement of the Bishop's farm, is most solemnly denied ; and the 
 "peculiar circumstances" upon which light is hereafter promised, are 
 fearlessly pronounced pure fabrications. None, of the character or 
 tendency implied, do or have existed. 
 
 In all that relates to the Bishop's farm, an account current is kept 
 with the same accuracy and the same impartiality as with any indiffer- 

 
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 ent person. No teams, stock or utensils, belonging to the College, are 
 used in the service of the Bishop, without his being charged for the 
 same, at the rates that he could hire of an indifferent person in the 
 county. The farm, as is well known, was purchased years before the 
 location of the College. At one time the College was to have been 
 located four miles distant ; at another, some eighty miles distant, in 
 Lasalle county. It was purchased, improved, and, through accuracy 
 of the accounts, is carried on as independently of the College as any 
 farm in the county. 
 
 And even the Robin's Nest, the humble tenement upon the Bishop's 
 farm, cannot escape. It must be made the occasion of sarcastic allu- 
 sions and calumnious charges against Bishop Chase and his family. 
 
 At one time, when the annotator would scoffingly ridicule the pa- 
 tient endurance and self-denial of Bishop Chase and his family, when 
 inhabiting this lowly dwelling, he represents it as affording ample ac- 
 comodations for twenty-nine souls. At another, when the annotator 
 accuses the Bishop of " extensively using it for capital for the sake of 
 money-getting," he represents it as a temporary building, at present 
 unoccupied ; viz.: " The Bishop's family too. That one family have 
 " shared with him the privations above described by himself, the number 
 " which it embraces of his own kindred being known, a truer sympathy 
 " for him will be likely to be cherished. Be it understood, then, that 
 " the Robin's Nest numbers and cherishes twenty-nine, who are to 
 "the Bishop as bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh." — "That 'log 
 " house' has been so extensively used for money-getting, as to render 
 " it right and proper that the truth respecting it should be told. The 
 " truth is, that it was, and was intended to be, occupied temporarily 
 " only." — " Robin's Nest gets but seventeen hundred dollars this year 
 " from the Domestic Committee ; the $1000 already noticed going to 
 " the Bishop, $300 to his son, $200 to his nepheAv. and $200 to his 
 "protege. Why cannot more be given, and so the personal privations 
 " and inconveniences we so often hear of be diminished ? If given, it 
 " shall go into the one common treasury, whose keeper knoweth how 
 " to care for his own. Come and see how this is done, and judge ; 
 " $500 deducted from $3,500, for expenses for raising the same in 
 " Jubilee College, is but a slight sample." 
 
 It is somewhat uncertain in what precise sense the annotator uses*
 
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 - 
 
 the term " Robin's Nest," in the above quotations. Sometimes it 
 seems as only applicable to the dwelling on the Bishop's farm, and 
 again as if used generically to embrace the Bishop and his family and 
 all in the employ of the college, and again the Bishop and all the 
 missionaries in the county ; but whether used in the one sense or in 
 the three respectively, the changes are so artfully rung upon the word, 
 as to convey the impression that all is done solely for the emolument 
 of Bishop Chase and his family. But in each and every one of these 
 senses the imputation intended is false. 
 
 The " Robin's Nest " has never at any one time numbered or 
 cherished, as belonging properly to the family of Bishop Chase, one- 
 third of the number alledged. It was never designed to be, nor was 
 it, occupied temporarily. There is no conceivable sense in which it 
 can be said with truthfulness that it gets $ 1709 from the Domestic 
 Committee. 
 
 Now what are the facts ? 
 
 The " Robin's* Nest " was the name originally given to the humble 
 dwelling into which the Bishop and his family, consisting of himself, 
 wife, two sons, (his eldest son being a member of Trinity College, 
 Hartford,) one daughter and a niece, moved on his first coming to 
 Illinois. This tenement, as is well known, is a substantially built log 
 cabin, and is situated about one and a half miles from the college. It 
 was inhabited by the Bishop and his family, as above enumerated, for 
 several years, and subsequently, and at the present time, by Mr. 
 Henry I. Chase. This dwelling, though by the industry of the Bishop 
 and his son in planting fruit and ornamental trees, presenting a neat 
 and comfortable aspect, yet in reality possesses all the discomforts of 
 a log cabin, which, notwithstanding the merciless irony of the annota- 
 tor, those only can appreciate, who, with tastes and habits formed 
 under other circumstances, have been obliged to endure 
 
 Under what figure of speech the annotator use? the term " Robin's 
 Nest," when he affirms that it "numbers and cherishes twenty-nine, 
 " who are unto the Bishop as bone of his bone, and fl^sh of his flesh," 
 is left entirely to conjecture. By enumerating the Bishop's family 
 and those of six others residing upon the college hill or in its vicinity 
 in 1846, and whose heads are more or less employed in the different 
 departments of the college or in missionary operations, and we have
 
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 the exact number twenty-nine. Rut what has this to do with ths 
 privations and inconveniences which Bishop Chase and his family 
 have endured, or the sympathy which his toils and labors have 
 excited? These six families all have separate and independent estab- 
 lishments, main' lined and supported at their own expense. The 
 heads of these families have, or have had, some connections with the 
 college, or missionary work in its vicinity. They have been employed 
 as missionaries, as teachers, or as agents tor the college. But what 
 has this to do with the inconveniences of the " Robin's Nest," or 
 sympathy for the toils and labors of the Bishop ? They one and all 
 have labored faithfully in their several departments, and all that they 
 have received has been honestly earned. Four out of six of these 
 families are more or less connected with him by consanguinity. But 
 what has this to do with the imputation sought to be sustained ? — The 
 very reverse of what the pamphlet supposes. These persons labor 
 under the direction of the Bishop, whether for the college or in tl e 
 missionary work, not because from their connection with him by the 
 ties of blood they receive large salaries, but from other and higher 
 considerations. In many instances these persons are laboring for 
 salaries upon which others have turned their backs. The writer, 
 who, of the four alluded to, is the most distantly related to the Bi?hop, 
 and who receives the largest salary, now most solemnly declares, that, 
 did not his labors here afford greater promise of usefulness to the 
 Church than they could if rendered in a secular college, the considera- 
 tion of the salary he receives would not prevent his abandoning his 
 post to-morrow : and what is true in his case is still more true in the 
 case of the others. But still the question recurs, What has all this 
 to do with the untiring zeal and devotion of Bishop Chase to the 
 welfare of Jubilee College and the advancement of the Church in 
 Rlinois ? Why drag the Robin's Nest, the number of its inmates, the 
 families of those employed in the college, thus before the gaze of the 
 world ? It is to point a sarcasm — to wing the shaft of calumny — to 
 empoison the stiletto. 
 
 And what are the facts in relation to the Missionary fund, of which 
 it is asserted " Robin's Nest gets but $ 1703 ? " 
 
 The Rev. Dudley Chase, the Bishop's son, during a considerable 
 portion of the year is engaged in his duties as an itinerant missionary.
 
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 He accompanies his father in his tours through his Diocese ; and 
 when not engaged in visiting distant sections of the country, laithfully 
 preaching the gospel to the destitute and breaking to the needy the 
 bread of life, he regularly officiates at a chapel in Brimtield, some 
 seven miles distant from the Robin's Nest, where, under God, through 
 his faithful ministrations, a large and flourishing congregation has 
 been gathered, principally from those who we:-e strangers to the 
 
 Church. 
 
 The Rev. Richard Radley, who is scoffingly termed, for what reason 
 I know not, the Bishop's protege, has charge of a parish at Jones's 
 Prairie, some ten miles distant from the Robin's Nest, where he 
 regularly officiates : he has charge also of a chapel at Kickapoo, some 
 two miles distant, where he is collecting a promising congregation : 
 in all which he performs faithfully the duties of a missionary. 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Chase, a distant relative of the Bishop, — called 
 in the pamphlet his nephew, — devotes his time principally to the 
 chapel of the college and the religious instruction of the pupils : he 
 also occasionally preaches in the chapels at Brimneld and Kickapoo, 
 when the Rev. Messrs. D. Chase and Radley are engaged in more 
 distant services. 
 
 A reference to the reports of the above missionaries, as published 
 in the Spirit of Missions, will show that the stipends appropriated to 
 them by the Board has not been lost to the Church. The extent of 
 territory travelled over by them embraces a circuit, the diameter of 
 which is some 90 miles, no portion of which lies within the parochial 
 cure of any other clergyman. The number of congregations visited 
 by them is 11 ; the number of communicants is upwards of 175. 
 
 Leaving out of the statistics the $ 1003 paid the Bishop on other 
 grounds and for other purposes, there is scarce an instance in the 
 whole missionary field of the Church, where $ 700 in its appropriation 
 embraces so large a territory, so great a number of stations, and so 
 many communicants. The fact may here be stated, that towards the 
 chapel at Brimneld, Bishop Chase has contributed near $800, and 
 the Rev. D. Chase $50 ; while towards the chapel at Kickapoo, the 
 Rev. R. Radley has contributed upwards of $ 700, and is still holden 
 for a debt of more than $ 100. 
 
 Surely in these instances there has been no wrong committed,
 
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 either by the Board in granting the several stipends, or by the mis- 
 sionaries in accepting them. The moneys have all been expended in 
 the current and daily expenses of the missionaries, who have been 
 and are laboring as faithfully as any in the field. 
 
 But what has all these facts, either as it regards the salaries allowed 
 the missionaries or the labors performed by them, to do with the 
 " Robin's Nest," or its " one treasury? " Why must the Robin's Nest 
 be made, Proteus-like, to assume as many phases as the annotator of 
 the Ann-street pamphlet shall choose to cast imputations upon Bishop 
 Chase and his measures ? What has occurred in it or the Church, 
 that it must be made the occasion of taunts and sarcasms towards its 
 venerable occupant in former years 1 Strangers may look coldly on, 
 and enemies may smile at the unfeeling and heartless language in 
 which the annotator has chosen to indulge, in describing it as the 
 scene of Bishop Chase's early toils in behalf of the college ; but others 
 will burn with honorable indignation or weep with bitter sorrow. 
 
 Since writing the foregoing the following letters have been found 
 among the Bishop's correspondence, and are here properly introduced, 
 as well for the purpose of showing the source whence the funds were 
 derived which converted the " log cabin into a convenient and warm 
 cottage," as to contrast the real scenes and actual occurrences in the 
 Robin's Nest with the descriptions of the pamphlet. 
 
 "Holton Rectory, July — , 1S40. 
 
 " My dear Mrs. Ciiase : 1 had the pleasure of receiving the dear 
 Bishop's letter from New-Orleans, and was delighted to see how the 
 hearts of his friends were opening to receive him and to aid his great 
 undertaking. I address myself to you, my dear madam, in reply, not 
 knowing where your beloved traveller may have bent his steps since he 
 wrote to me, and yet hoping that by the time this reaches the Robin's 
 Nest you may again be cheered by his society. 
 
 "I have the great pleasure of announcing to you, that two days ago I 
 received a letter from a dear friend, who will not let me mention his 
 name, saying that he had ordered £50 to be paid to the account of 
 Bishop Chase, at Messrs. Homes & Farquhar's, St James-street, as 
 his own contribution, and £25 for his daughters. It is entered as 
 coming from friends of mine ; and in reply I have told him that he has 
 not only done the kindest thing possible, but in a manner to ^ivc me 
 the greatest possible gratification; tor not having myself the means of 
 helping as I could wish, he thus makes it appear in my name. I'hope 
 we shall make up the £100 with a few other donations; and then, 
 3 

 
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 dear madam, I wish to commit this sum specially to your care. It is 
 given to cheer the heart of the dear Bishop, and to encourage him in 
 his work ; but that heart can never be cheerful, if it sees you oppressed 
 with toil and care. It must not, therefore, go for any ornamental 
 works for the college or the chapel, nor for any extension of the build- 
 ing. It must go to relieve your mind from cares that have, I am sure, 
 already come upon you, and from exertions that are too much for your 
 strength ; and in this way you will be strengthened to strengthen 
 your invaluable husband, and to exert all your energies to persuade 
 him not to attempt more than he has the means to carry on ; for if he 
 does, he will come under the rebuke of Luke xiv. 28 — 30 ; whereas if 
 now he just brings into use what he has already done, he will receive the 
 praise and congratulations of all. I hope, therefore, this is the last 
 time that he will have to appeal to the public, and that when once he 
 gets back to you he will settle for life, and that all his energies will be 
 turned to the spiritual concerns of his interesting and immense Diocese. 
 What a charge it is ! and what an honor to be permitted to be, as it 
 were, the rallying-point for so many who may become the faithful sol- 
 diers of the Lord Jesus Christ. My dear friend, in writing to me with 
 his generous contributions, says : ' May he long live to accomplish 
 what he has planned, for the glory of his Master and the good of souls; 
 and then he will be entitled to what was said of Bishop Hall, which I 
 turn into an epitaph for him : 
 
 HERE LIES BISHOP CHASE, 
 WHO DIED FULL OF YEAES BUT FULLER OF GRACE.' 
 
 " I just copy thisjo show you the pious interest taken by this friend 
 in the dear Bishop, who I hope will be with you to read this, or at 
 least that you have good accounts of him and his progress towards you. 
 The seeds he and his dear Mary gathered were for this friend, but they 
 never arrived, neither could I learn what became of them. 
 
 " Adieu, my dear madam, and believe me most truly yours, 
 
 Akxe Tyndale." 
 
 To this letter was sent the following reply : 
 
 " Robin's Nest, Illinois, Seft. — , 1840. 
 " My dear Mrs. Tyndale : My dear husband inclosed me your 
 kind letter, forwarded from me to him in Charleston, and at the same 
 time mentioned he had written you an answer. My heart dictated an 
 immediate reply to your affectionate communication ; but at that time 
 I was attending the sick bed of a relative. As returning health again 
 blessed our little circle, news came that my dear husband was ill, — 
 very, very distant from us. It was what I had long expected to hear. 
 His ardor in his Master's cause I feared was carrying him beyond his 
 strength. But He whom he serves was with him ; and the last mail 
 brought us the cheering intelligence that he should in a day or two 
 leave Connecticut for home, though rather on a circuitous route, hop- 
 ing to see us all in October. My spirits thus enlivened, I feel happy in 
 addressing you. 

 
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 "To our unknown benefactors I would offer thanks ; but these are 
 so common, and often proceed from hearts that value the gift more than 
 the giver, that I refrain. Say then, if you please, dear madam, they 
 are remembered when I supplicate that, for temporal favor received, 
 God would pour on them abundantly spiritual gifts. 
 
 " How can I ever doubt His care, when he inclines the hearts of 
 Christians in a distant land to supply our wants here in the wilderness. 
 As you remark the sum is "committed to my care, to dispose of as 
 may most cheer the heart of the dear Bishop," you will be pleased to 
 hear in what way I employ it. Our habitation, though pleasant 
 enough in summer, is rather a sorry one in winter. I have therefore 
 availed myself of this generous donation to convert our humble cabin 
 into a convenient and warm cottage. This is now nearly completed, 
 and I doubt not my dear husband will be quite satisfied with the ex- 
 penditure, and enjoy it tenfold, as it is an evidence that Christian 
 hearts feel for him, though oceans separate us. Perhaps I ought to 
 say something of the fund collected by Mrs. Wiggin some years since 
 for tliis object, and to which you, dear madam, were a liberal contribu- 
 tor ; but my husband has certainly told you all about it, and you must 
 feel assured it was a thousand times better emp'oyed. It would do 
 your heart good to look into Jubilee chapel, — the pulpit, desks, and 
 folding-doors of black walnut, the pews painted in imitation of oak, 
 every thing plain but very neat and in good taste. The sound of the 
 bell almost makes me weep. Though we, after many years, are so 
 blessed, yet to how many in Illinois do the lines of Cowper apply : 
 
 " ' The sound of the cluirch-going bell 
 " ' These valleys and rocks never heard.' 
 
 " Rushville, at the south, 60 miles, is the nearest Episcopal Church, 
 and that is without a clergyman : Chicago 160 miles to the north : to 
 the cast and west, many families, but no Churches. Last Sunday was 
 our monthly communion. It was tine weather, and eight new mem- 
 bers joined us from Farmington, 20 miles distant : six of them had 
 lately moved in from Philadelphia; they were Irish, though for some 
 years residing in the States. Here then is a nucleus for another 
 Church, if we had a teacher to give them. But where is he to be 
 found ? Not in the eastern states : the demand there is greater than 
 can be met. In this state of things, say not, dear madam that I should 
 urge my dear husband to 'settle for life.' Nothing would be more 
 congenial to my feelings or his. But duty is before him : he must 
 labor for another generation. Population is thickening around us. 
 Ignorance and vice have rule. What can the unaided etforts of one 
 man do? When at home, his heart sinks at the very calls for help 
 that he is not able to render. He travels through his Diocese till his 
 voice and strength are gone, and he returns to await and reflect that 
 he has done nothing — nothing to meet the exigency. Thus years 
 have passed. But he knows a religious education for the youth — a 
 school for the prophets — would make this wiiderness bloom and blos- 
 som as the rose. Yet he is poor : he has little influence. It is all 

 
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 true, and he might fall under the threatened rebuke you allude to ; but 
 experience has taught him his Master is rich and powerful. It His 
 strength he goes on ; in His strength he has been successful ; when he 
 trusts in his own, he will fail. That this time may never arrive, let 
 him have the prayers of his dear English friends : they have his and 
 mine. 
 
 " Most truly, believe me your grateful and affectionate friend, 
 
 " S. M. Chase." 
 
 As to the $500 deducted from the scholarship fund in the College, 
 the occurrence is believed to be entirely satisfactory to the contributors 
 to that fund ; and others need only be reminded that Bishop Chase 
 was engaged nearly nine months in establishing the scholarship foun- 
 dations, during the greater portion of which he was travelling, to satisfy 
 them that this was not an extravagant sum to be expended during that 
 period of time in personal expenses and travelling fees. It was, in 
 fact, less than his expense actually paid out. 
 
 The following interrogatories, contained in the notes of the pam- 
 phlet, deserve a passing notice : — 
 
 " In the case of a large share of the moneys received by Bishop 
 " Chase, how can the intention of the donors be ascertained at all ?" — 
 " How is it to be ascertained, of all the moneys the Bishop has 
 " received and unappropriated specifically, what portion has been 
 " intended for him as an individual ; what portion for him as Bishop 
 " of Illinois, to support the Episcopate ; and what portion for him to 
 ** use on Jubilee College ? " 
 
 As to the distinction the annotator affects to make between sums 
 given to Bishop Chase as an individual, and those given to him as 
 Bishop of Illinois, "to support the Episcopate," it is a distinction 
 without a difference. No sums have ever been intrusted to Bishop 
 Chase on any such condition as the distinction implies, i. e. " to sup- 
 port the Episcopate" during the life of Bishop Chase or his continuance 
 in office, and then descend to his successor. And yet the language 
 of the annotator, if it means any thing, implies this. 
 
 In reference to the remaining part of the inquiry, it may be observed 
 there will be no difficulty. Accurate accounts are kept of all the 
 various sums received or disbursed by Bishop Chase on account of 
 Jubilee College. These accounts are kept with the utmost minute- 
 ness. All sums received are entered, and the objects for which they 

 
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 are given are specified. If in any case a reasonable doubt exists as 
 to t lie intended object, the sum is placed to the general account of the 
 College ; and many arc the instances in which the sums given have 
 been thus credited, where an impartial party would have unhesitatingly 
 decided that they were intended for the Bishop's private use. Upon 
 this point there is the utmost scrupulousness upon the part of the 
 Bishop and his iamily. The foul imputation implied in the interrog- 
 atory of the annotator is as abhorrent to them as it is disgraceful to 
 him who makes it. Ample vouchers are taken for all sums paid out 
 on account of the College. In this respect the Bishop is particularly 
 jealous of the proceedings of his agents. 
 
 That all in the matter of receipts and disbui'sements on account of 
 the College, is done in good faith and with the strictest honesty, tho 
 most solemn declaration and averment is here deliberately made. 
 Nor is this done unadvisedly, or on insufficient grounds. Ample and 
 satisfactory documents of the fiscal transactions of the College are 
 preserved, and will in due time be handed over to persons duly 
 authorized according to the charter to receive the same ; togethex* 
 with "all the houses, lands, mills, stores, flocks and herds, which have 
 " been contributed or which have resulted from such contributions." 
 
 Throughout the pamphlet there are frequent intimations, sometimes 
 found in its peculiar phraseology, and again in positive assertion, that 
 other specifications are in reserve and will be brought forward " here- 
 after." Whether this be truly so, or whether the intimation be only 
 in corroboration of the preferred charges, the gauntlet is accepted. 
 Bishop Chase shrinks from no responsibility in the matter of Jubilee 
 College, which in the good providence of God has been imposed upon 
 him. The immense interests with which he has been entrusted will 
 be sacredly guarded, and faithfully transferred to others, according to 
 the declared and known will of the donors, and in accordance with 
 the provUions of the charter granted him in 1840-7. 
 
 The entire pamphlet has now been reviewed. The various allega- 
 tions brought forward in support of the main charge, have been met 
 and shown to be false ; and if any minor ones have been overlooked, 
 they may readily be referred to their own peculiar category : they will 
 naturally class themselves as belonging to those brought forward in 
 ignorance or in malice.
 
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 And the declaration is here again renewed, and that too with all 
 earnestness and solemnity, that the main charge preferred in the 
 pamphlet, together with the minor allegations and specifications by 
 which it is sought to be sustained, is false. The allegations and 
 1 specifications, one and all, are, either in fact or in their sinister 
 ; interpretations, false. They are thrown back with all the conse- 
 quences this act involves upon those who prefer them. 
 
 In conclusion, the question naturally occurs, What is the object of 
 the pamphlet ? What motives have actuated its authors, and what 
 ' purpose have they in view 1 Is it an honorable solicitude for the 
 welfare of the College, and an honest effort to rescue it from any real 
 or supposed danger? Nothing of the kind. The agents in the matter 
 1 of the pamphlet, from its first vague and equivocal existence down to 
 its present tangible form, have neither entertained any anxiety for the 
 welfare of the College, nor have they supposed that danger menaced 
 it from the quarter they have indicated. 
 
 The conduct of all those who have sympathized with the effort of 
 the pamphlet in all that they have whispered, in all that they have 
 murmured, and in all that they have said and done, unequivocally 
 betrays other motives and other purposes. And now that their 
 motives in this their last and open act of hostility to Jubilee College 
 and its founder have been so indiscreetly betrayed, shall their purposes 
 be accomplished] Shall they succeed in undermining by their suspi- 
 cions, and overthrowing by their machinations, the Avails of this 
 citadel of religion and learning ? Shall its venerable founder be 
 doomed to stand and see himself hemmed in on all sides, one supply 
 after another cut off, until utter destitution shall compel him to sur- 
 render at discretion 1 
 
 Will the Church permit this ? Will the benevolent, the pious, the 
 liberal, the faithful of the land, look coldly on, while the work of 
 demolition goes slowly but surely forward ? This must not be. There 
 is the same sense of duty — the same love of souls — pervading the 
 breasts and stirring the hearts of Christians, as in former days : there 
 is the same God in heaven who ruleth over all, who epeneth the 
 hearts of the liberal and supplieth the necessities of his saints. 
 
 But have the abettors of the pamphlet no ulterior purpose in view ? 
 Should they succeed in creating such distrust as to the present pros- 
 
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 perity and future usefulness of the College, as to preclude any further 
 aid from the Church, will they be satisfied ? Surely not. The pecu- 
 liar means resorted to on the part of the assailants demonstrates this. 
 The attack has been too partisan, too personal in its character. The 
 history of the struggle, for years past, shows the College to have been 
 the mere occasion, not the object. Every question raised has involved 
 some more serious consideration than the mere expediency of this or 
 that measure, so far as the college was concerned. Their primary 
 aim has been to bring into contingency Bishop Chase's position in 
 the Church. 
 
 But these efforts have all signally failed. Bishop Chase stands 
 before the Church, claiming and enjoying a high rank among her 
 truest sons ; — none more devoted to her cause — none more self-denying 
 for her sake, nor more jealous of her honor and her purity. 
 
 The assault is now to be conducted under a different banner. That 
 of the Church refuses to unfold itself to the enraptured gaze of men 
 and heaven's favoring breeze, when raised as the signal of attack 
 against one whose whole life has been spent beneath its sheltering 
 folds. Another signal must be hung abroad as the rallying point. 
 Hence the peculiar characteristic of the late attack : — the grave must 
 be rifled ; its peaceful repose must be disturbed ; and the work " of 
 one who now rests from his labors" must be brought to light, as 
 u most proper for the present time." Bishop Chase must now be 
 assailed in that of which no man living has dared openly to accuse 
 him ; that of which, if in any respect, he has whereof to glory, — his 
 honesty and integrity. And must Bishop Chase respond to such 
 charges — charges made under such circumstances ? As before inti- 
 mated, no mere personal considerations would induce him to assume 
 the character of respondent to charges so preferred. But the position 
 which he occupies, in the providence of God, not only in reference to 
 the College but the Church, compels him so to do. Not only does he 
 stand before the Church as the founder of Jubilee College, but before 
 the world as peculiarly the representative of the Church in the United 
 States. He is the oldest Bishop; and through him, not only in this 
 respect but in others, is the Church favorably known abroad. His 
 position is not that of an isolated individual. Whatever effective blow 
 reaches Bishop Chase, sends its reverberations throughout the Church.
 
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 Love for the Church, solicitude for her welfare, and anxiety for the 
 College as an auxiliary of her prosperity, have induced Bishop Chase 
 to repel the recent attack made upon his honesty and integrity in the 
 matter of Jubilee College. 
 
 The position in which the recent attack places Bishop Chase not 
 only invokes the aid and sympathy of the Church, the support and 
 benevolence of his friends, but the common justice of Humanity. 
 
 
 /
 
 NOTE. 
 
 Since preparing the foregoing for the press, the attention of the 
 
 writer has been called to an article originally published in the St. 
 
 Louis New Era, and thence copied into several eastern papers, in 
 
 which there occurs the following : 
 
 " The most important bill, which became a law, last week, [by the 
 Illinois legislature,] was one ' to incorporate Jubilee College.' This 
 establishment has been reared by the labors ol Bishop Chase. It is 
 situated in the interior, fifteen miles north-west of Peoria. 'J he insti- 
 tution is well endowed, mostly by donations from English gentlemen. 
 The buildings already reared are comfortable, and accommodate quite 
 a number of students, and the families of the teachers and president. 
 The main college edifice is now soon to be erected, for which purpose 
 there is an immediate available fund of $80 000. The institution is 
 entirely free from debt. A charter was gianted at the previous session 
 of the legislature; but it was so obnoxious to the Bishop's views, as 
 well as to those who had furnished the means to establish the institu- 
 tion, that it was not accepted." 
 
 The writer is utterly at a loss to conjecture from what source the 
 
 supposition originated that "there is an immediate available fund of 
 
 $80,000 for the erection of the main college edifice." No such fund 
 
 is in existence. Bishop Chase has no funds for further improvements. 
 
 The utmost economy and frugality is requisite in order that the college 
 
 may meet its current expenses and not become embarrassed with 
 
 debts. Indeed so far from Bishop Chase's having an available fund 
 
 of $80,000, or any sum above the daily and actual expenses of the 
 
 institution, the college is now incurring a debt in the support of its 
 
 beneficiaries. Bishop Chase entertained reasonable expectations that 
 
 the annual subscriptions to this fund would be promptly paid. No 
 
 more worthy object of charity could be presented to the Church : none 
 
 of so great promise.
 
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 The following exhibits the condition ot the scholarship fund : 
 Bishop Chase in account with Scholarship Fund in Jubilee College. 
 
 DR. 
 
 1001 15 
 
 1846. Oct. 1. To balance unexpended, and several subscrip- 
 tions since paid, acknowledged Jan. 10, 1347, 
 
 " " By expenses of 24 beneficiaries for the year end- 
 
 ing Oct. 1st, 1847, amounting to 23 1-2 entire 
 years, at $ 100 each, 
 
 " " By deficit on above not paid in advance, 21 1-2 
 
 at $ 10 each, 
 
 " " By incidental expenses of beneficiaries, the bills 
 
 for which remain unpaid, 
 
 " " To balance, 
 
 2101 52 
 
 CR. 
 
 2350 00 
 215 00 
 537 67 
 
 3102 67 3102 67 
 
 The above exhibits the deficiency ($2101 52) which now exists. 
 This amount will be considerably increased by October 1st, on account 
 of additional incidental expenses of beneficiaries for books, stationary, 
 and necessary articles of clothing. S. C. 
 
 April 1st, 1847.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 The charter of Jubilee College was obtained Jan. 22, 1847. Soon afterwards it 
 was announced in the following letter of Bishop Chase, published in most of the 
 periodicals of the Church. A copy of the charter itself was subsequently sent to 
 The press ; but as the impression was a limited one, the same is now printed in full. 
 It will be observed that the charter was procured in January, and soon after pub- 
 lished : the existence of the Ann-street pamphlet was unknown to the Bishop until 
 the following March : 
 
 A CHARTER GRANTED TO JUBILEE COLLEGE, ILLINOIS. 
 
 " This is the Lord's doing ; and it is marvellous in our eyes." 
 
 In the beginning of this year of our Lord, 1847, Bishop Chase was at Springfield, 
 where, the legislature of Illinois is in session. Although in feeble health, he went 
 to see the goveri or at his office of state, and had the honor of a visit from the 
 lieutenant-governor, the president of the senate. By the former he was encouraged, 
 by the latter he was advised, to seek the company of the committees on education 
 and corporations ; these all waited on him, out of respect to his age and feebleness 
 of health. 
 
 He told them plainly what he wanted, namely, a charter based on the principles 
 expressed at the laying of the corner-stone of the chapel of Jub lee College, April 
 9, a d. 1839 ; which being read to them, they granted all he wished ; and on the 
 13th of January, the said charter was passed in due form by both houses of the 
 legislature without a dissenting voice ; and a few minutes after, Bishop Chase was 
 on his way home. Surely he might say, as he rode swiftly along, '• This is the 
 Lord's doing ; and it is marvellous in our eyes." 
 
 The propriety of this train of thinking appears from the fact, of the. legislature 
 of Illinois having heretofore been averse to granting corporate powers to religious 
 denominations. They had always expressed in their charters to colleges, that 
 "there should be no sectarian religion taught in them." By this they evidently 
 rapposed they were showing a " ibertil spirit," forgetting that where there is no 
 "establishments" all are "sects" in the eye of the law ; and consequently, in
 
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 forbidding " sects," they forbade all religion, all teaching in relation to a Supreme 
 Being, and thereby caused all our streams of learning to run into the common dead 
 pool of Atheism, illumined by no rays from the light of heaven, and " curled by no 
 breeze " from the breath of God. 
 
 Not so the present legislature of our prairie state. Praised be God ! they have 
 their eyes open, and now see the difference between, and a false estimate of the 
 liberties of, conscience. Societies as well as individuals are free, and corporations 
 as well as societies are also free, to teach what they deem the truth ; and they who 
 do it best and most in accordance with the revealed will of God, of which the public, 
 with the Bible in their hands and hearts, will judge, do promote most effectually 
 the public weal. 
 
 A copy of the charter granted to Jubilee College cannot now be given. It is too 
 long for insertion here. Suffice it to say, that it contains all the principles laid 
 down in " the corner-stone " above alluded to. 
 
 Under one corporation is exercised jurisdiction over, 1st. A theological seminary; 
 2d. A college proper ; 3d. A grammar school of preparatory learning; 4th. A female 
 department. 
 
 In all these, appropriate degrees and certificates may be conferred and issued for 
 the encouragement of the students and pupils, so as to make Jubilee equal to the 
 most favored college and university in the United States. 
 
 Has not then the Bishop and all his friends great reason to say, " This is indeed 
 the Lord's doing ; and it is indeed marvellous in our eyes." It shows, at least, 
 what was manifest to all, and confessed by many of the legislature while the bill 
 was passing, that " honesty is the best policy ;" and that cand.r and open dealing 
 form the surest passport to the hearts of an enlightened people. 
 
 Of all the achievments of his whole life, Bishop Chase has reason to consider 
 this, of having obtained so liberal a charter to Jubilee College, the greatest. It is 
 in truth a crown, which God, in mercy to his Diocese and the far west, has placed 
 on his aged head, now whitened by the toils of more than three score years and ten. 
 A crown, indeed, it is, which, decked with the gems of Christian privileges, Wb 
 now throws at the feet of the cross, as best of all, sustained through Christ, in 
 aiding the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 The commencement of Jubilee College will take place on the 7th of July, 1847. 
 
 CHARTER OF JUBILEE COLLEGE. 
 
 Whereas by a petition of Philander Chase, Bishop of the Protestant Ep ; scopal 
 Church in the state of Illinois, it appears that he hath given from his own estate and 
 collected from other private resources, means to found and (in some small degree) 
 endow an institution of religion and learning, situate in the county of Peoria and 
 6tate of Illinois, caled by him " Jub.lee College" and relying on the great principles 
 of liberty secured to all by the constitution and laws of the United States, to wor- 
 ship and promote the glory of God agreeably to the dictates of their own consciences, 
 did on the third day of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty- 
 nine, at the laying of the corner-stone of the chapel of said college, solemnly and 
 publicly declare the Christian principles of the same, specifying the property which 
 he gave, and also the conditions on which he designed it to be enjoyed and used ; 
 Therefore, 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the 
 general assembly, That it shall be lawful for the said Philander Chase to nominate 
 and appoint, in his last will and testament or otherwise, the trustees of the college 
 aforesaid, who shall upon such nomination, together with a president as hereinafter 
 provided, form a body corporate, and be known in law as the President and Trus- 
 tees of Jubilee College, and shall have power to make and use a common seal ; to 
 hold property ; to sue and be sued ; to plea and be impleaded ; to confer degrees in 
 the liberal arts and sciences ; and to do all other things for the encouragement of 
 religion and learning which are lawfully allowed and done in the most approved 
 seminaries, colleges and universities in the United States, and which shall be con- 
 sistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and of this state ; Pro-
 
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 vided, That said corporation shall not be allowed to hold more than four thousand 
 acres of laud at any one time, which land shall be immediately adjoining the col- 
 lege edifice, or within the county, unless the said corporation shall have received 
 the excess by gift, grant or devise, and in such case shall be obliged to sell the same 
 within five years after they shall have acquired such title, and in default thereof, 
 the same shall revert to the person or persons from whom the same was received, 
 or their heirs. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said institution shall consist, first, of a theological department ; se- 
 condly, the college proper ; thirdly, a classical preparatory school ; and fourthly, 
 a female seminary ; and appropriate degrees may be conferred in the several de- 
 partments thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Chureh in the Diocese or 
 state of Illinois, shall be ex-officio president of the said college, embracing the said 
 departments thereof, and he shall also be president of the board of trustees thereof. 
 Sec. 4. The said board of trustees shall consist of not less than three and never 
 more than seven persons, beside the president or Bishop, and a majority of these 
 shall be clergymen in full orders ; the minority may be deacons or laymen, but no 
 layman shall be appointed a trustee unless he be a baptized and " confirmed" 
 Christian, and a regular partaker of the Lord's Supper in the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 Sec. 5. There may be a vice-president, provided he be a presbyter, appointed 
 by the Bishop, in which case he shall act as the proxy of the president when ab- 
 sent, in all cases, except as having the power to nominate, and this shall rest with 
 the president alone. 
 
 Sec. 6. The president shall nominate to all vacancies that may occur in the 
 board of trustees, and also of the professors and teachers and other officers of the 
 said institution, and the trustees, by a majority of votes taken by ballot, shall ap- 
 prove of the said nomination ; and in case of their refusing, the convention of the 
 Diocese shall approve, and in case they refuse the nomination shall be null, and it 
 shall be the duty of the president to make out another nomination. 
 
 Sec. 7. The trustees shall have power to make by-laws for their own govern- 
 ment and the government of the professors, teachers and students, and other per- 
 sons employed by the institution, which, when approved by the president, and in 
 ail respects consistent with the laws of the laud, shall be binding. 
 
 Sec. 8. The by-laws, while in manuscript, shall be read in the chapel immedi- 
 ately after divine service, publicly once every term, and when in print it 6hall suf- 
 fice that every officer and student shall be furnished with a copy thereof. 
 
 Sec. 9. The office of trustee shall he held during good behavior. A clergyman 
 
 shall cease to be a trustee when he is degraded, and it shall be unlawful for him to 
 
 act as such while in or under the sentence of snspension. A layman shall cease to 
 
 be a trustee when he, by the rules of the Church, is " repelled" from the communion. 
 
 Sec. 10. In case of a vacancy in the episcopate of the Diocese, or the refusal 
 
 of the Bishop, for the time being, to assume or to discharge the duty of president of 
 
 sail I institution as above specified, the majority of trustees then in office shall elect 
 
 by ballot a clergyman of their own number, who shall perform all the duties and 
 
 acts pertaining and peculiar to the office of president during such vacancy, or while 
 
 the unwillingness of the Bishop or his providential imbecility to act shall continue. 
 
 Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the trustees, through the president, to make a 
 
 true representation every three years, between the festival of the Nativity of our 
 
 Lord and Saviour and the Epiphany, of the alFairs of the college or seminary to the 
 
 next convention of the Diocese, in which an accurate account shall be rendered of 
 
 all the receipts and disbursements, and the mode in which benefactions have been 
 
 used, together with such statements concerning the temporal and spiritual welfare 
 
 of the same, as may give satisfaction that all things have been done well and truly 
 
 and according to the will of the founder. 
 
 Sec. 12. The president shall have power to remove all tutors and other officers 
 of the said institution, except the theological and collegiate professors and the prin- 
 cipal of the female seminary. The dismissal of any one of these shall require the 
 concurrence of the majority of the trustees.
 
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 Sec. 13. If at any time the convention shall have reason to believe that the 
 fluids of the college are misapplied, and used contrary to the will of the founder and 
 the laws of equity and justice, it shall be lawful for them to appoint a committee 
 of three, to prosecute the supposed delinquent or offending trustee or trustees, for a 
 breach of trust, before any civil court having cognizance of such offences, and to 
 obtain judgment and recover damages for the said college, to be applied for the 
 benefit of the same. 
 
 Sec. 14. Before the convention of the Diocese shall exercise the power herein 
 conferred, they shall have entered a resolution on the journal signifying their assent 
 and their obligation to fulfil the duties herein imposed on them, according to the 
 fair interpretation of the aforesaid expressed design and will of the founder : and if 
 they shall refuse to assume the obligation, it shall be lawful for the founder, Bishop 
 Chase, to make other provision, in his will or otherwise, for the performance of the 
 said duties of the convention, provided no clause thereof shall be contrary to any 
 part of this act, or to the laws of the land. 
 
 Sec. 15. All nominations and appointments, whether of trustees, professors, 
 teachers, vice-president, principal, or other officers of said college and institution, 
 made by the founder, shall need no further ratification. 
 
 Srcc. 16. The act entitled " An act to incorporate Jubilee College," approved 
 January 23th, 1845, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 17. This act is hereby declared a public act, and shall take effect from 
 and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, January 22, 1847. 
 
 OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
 
 Extract from the Protestant Churchman, New York, Feb. 13, 1847. 
 
 Jubilee College. — We would invite the attention of our readers to the commu- 
 nication of Bishop Chase in relation to the charter of Jubilee College. 
 
 The facts stated by him appear to us to furnish a sufficient answer to the con- 
 tents of a very suspicious-looking pamphlet recently sent to us, entitled " A Plain 
 Statement for the consideration of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Illinois," 
 <fcc. &c , by some anonymous mischief-maker, who is evidently ashamed of his 
 own publication, and thrusts at the object of his assault from the darkness in which 
 he is safely hidden from responsibility. Shame on such cowardice ! If the author, 
 or editor of this pamphlet, is what he pretends to be, let him avow himself honestly, 
 and prefer his charges and insinuations in open day, and in his own name. On 
 the whole subject of the property of Jubilee College, we have only to say, that when 
 the Bishop, pointing to this charter, assures us that it belongs to the Church, and is 
 secured to the Church forever, we give full confidence to that assurance. At the 
 same time, we appreciate the wisdom and firmness of his course, in so arranging 
 the settlement of the trust, as to guard against the occurrence, in Illinois, of troubles 
 like those which drove him from Ohio ! 
 
 Extract from the Calendar, Hartford, Gt., February 27, 1817. 
 
 An Anonymous Pamphlet. — Mr. Editor : I have received tlirough the mail a 
 pamphlet (which I understand has been widely circulated) printed in New York, 
 and prepared by some one who evidently does not wish to be known, in which a • 
 most violent and unchristian attack is made on the venerable Bishop of Illinois. 
 What can be the object of the writer I am at a loss to conjecture, unless it is sim- 
 ply to vent his spleen at the good Bishop. If the design is to injure the Bishop in 
 the estimation of those who know him, the author may be assured that he has ut-
 
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 terly failed. An attack so violent and unjust is calculated to excite sympathy, 
 rather than to bring odium upon its victim. 
 
 To assail successfully the honesty and veracity of one so well known, requires 
 stronger proof than the mere assertion of an anonymous writer. Are we now to 
 be told that Bishop Chase has subjected himself to no privations in his efforts to 
 plant the Church in the west ; that he has always been quite comfortable in his 
 log cabin ; and that all his long and painful journeys, by night and day, in sum- 
 mer and wi iter, through dark forests and over bleak prairies, are all nothing more 
 than the " children of this world are willing to hear in the pursuit of a favorite ob- 
 ject," as if there were no difference between laboring for one's self and toiling for the 
 good of others. Even the rejoicing of the Bishop in the prosperity and prospects of 
 his infant institution, is turned against him by this anonymous pamphleteer, as if 
 he were rejoicing in his own dishonest gains, rather than in the success of plaus 
 which he fondly hopes are to benefit future generations. 
 
 Mr. Editor, I do not propose to enter into an examination of what are stated to 
 be facts in this pamphlet. 1 have not the means at hand, and if I had, I should 
 not deem it necessary. The man who accuses Bishop Chase of a wilful suppres- 
 sion of the truth — who insinuates that the founding of Jub.lec College is little more 
 than a private speculation for the benefit of the Bishop and his family — who would 
 make us believe that he keeps the title to the property in his own hands, in order 
 that after his decease it may be claimed and enjoyed by his heirs at law, — has no 
 right to complain if we receive his statements with some distrust. Of what value 
 is character, if we are to believe that, after a long life of self-denial and integrity, 
 a man will turn villain for the sake of enriching his heirs ? Are we to have no faith 
 in human virtue — no faith even in human consistency ? Does Bishop Chase set so 
 low a value upon a good name, as to leave his children an inheritance of infamy, 
 for the sake of leaving them an inheritance in land ? The idea is too preposterous 
 to be indulged for a moment. 
 
 \\ by these attacks on Bishop Chase ? He is now an infirm old man, and must, 
 in the natural course of events, soon be called away to his reward. No one who 
 knows him, no one who is acquainted with all the circumstances of his life, will 
 believe him dishonest, or capable of doing intentional wrong. If he sometimes errs 
 in judgment — if he is sometimes impatient under contradiction — cannot we bear 
 with him for the sake of what he has been, for the sake of what he has done for 
 the Church? Let him descend to the grave in peace ; he will not be forgotten : 
 and, in spite of every attempt to defame his character, his memory will be cherished 
 by thousands who have been blessed by his self-denying labors. N. 
 
 Extract from the Christian Wihios ami Chinch Advocate, Boston, March 5. 1847, 
 
 Bisnor Citase. — Some few weeks since, we received a pamphlet with the follow- 
 ing title: "A plain Statement for the Consideration of the Friends of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Illinois, the Rt. Rev. Philander Chase, D. D., 
 Bishop." As this pamphlet was published anonymously, we did not deem it proper 
 to notice its contents. The object of the writer was to show, that though large 
 nuns have been contributed for "Jubilee College,** the donors had do security that 
 the college which they had aided by their liberal donations, would be a Church fn- 
 stitution, under the control of the D.ocese of Illinois. 
 
 Bishop < base, who is too much of a veteran to allow himself to be seriously an- 
 noyed by such cowardly threats, from enemies, who dare not put their name:' to 
 thrir allegations, has had the happiness of effectually silencing this effort to injure 
 bis influence and his institution, by showing to the Church, that he is Dot only wil- 
 ling, but desirous, to have Jubilee College incorporated, so thai it might be secured 
 to the Church as a Church institution. We published a letter from a correspondent 
 in Illinois a lew weeks since, giving the gratifying intelligence that the Bishop had 
 been successful, and that a charter had been granted. 
 
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