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1 Mr. Richmond's Reply to the Statement of the Late Bishop of New York 1845

handle is hein.trials/richreb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MR. RICHMOND'S REPLY, ETC, IF the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court had been met with becoming submission on the part of the late Bishop of New York and his friends; nay, had the Bishop alone de- fended himself, silence would have been my choice. For I would not blame a man about to be hanged, though he should strenuously resist the tightening of the noose around his neck; nor would any one censure him for endeavoring to escape, after having been so galvanized by his friends, that he might almost fancy himself recovering from the paralysis into which the too feeble hand of the law had thrown him. In short, had the poor Bishop been left to defend himself, we could forgive him for his misstatements; and I, for one, would be content to overlook even those mistakes or falsehoods, which, under other circumstances, it is thought incumbent on every man to answer, lest his silence should warrant some suspicion of their truth. With the Bishop I never was at war, but with his deeds; and how well had it been for him and for us, had his own warfare with those deeds been far greater than mine! Before he was tried, I counted him more worthy to be blamed than pitied ; but after his sentence I deemed him more entitled to pity than blame. Let it not be forgotten, amid the hue and cry which is now raised about conspiracies, malice, vindic- tiveness, party vengeance, and other misnomers, I say let it never be forgotten, that the Bishop has ruined himself, and that all the machinery which is most falsely said to have been employed against him, would, like arrows shot against a rock, have rebounded upon the conspirators, if applied to most of the other bishops. And even now, I would silently bear the numerous injurious insinuations and direct attacks made against myself, were it not also attempted, in order to save one guilty man, to involve in a common, but impossible de- struction, every person who has so much as dared to lift a hand or stir a foot in his righteous prosecution, slow and deliberate presentment, long, careful, and impartial trial, and in a sentence whose tenderness astonishes the world.

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