226 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [l/^S 



of a Bishop for any part of America — " for the wise and well-timed 

 opposition they had made to the pernicious project for introducing^ 

 an American Bishop." * In Maryland was my ancestor, Dr. Smith, 

 a man of strong individual views, a man who could hardly be ex- 

 pected to submit his great powers and large experience to one 

 twenty years his junior, whom he remembered as his pupil at the 

 age of seven years and till his adolescence, and who, in his recent 

 tract of the " Episcopal Churches Considered," had himself, from 

 accidental circumstances, been viiicJi misunderstood, and was sup- 

 posed by some to be endangering that Episcopal government, 

 which ivc well know that it was one of the greatest desires of his 

 life to save and perpetuate. In New Jersey was the Rev. Uzal 

 Ogden, an ambitious, troublesome man; never a churchman but 

 in profession, and who at last, ceasing even a profession, became a 

 Presbyterian outright; while close beside him, in the same State, 

 the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, who had declined a Bishop- 

 ric from Great Britain, a churchman as high as Laud, and with 

 quite as much zeal and far more abilities than that diminutive 

 Archbishop of Canterbury ever possessed. Finally, in Connecti- 

 cut was " Samuel," soon to be " Samuel, Bishop of Connecticut,-' 

 with his mitre and all the accessories of an English prelate — a 

 glorious specimen, indeed, of a churchman — but no doubt, as Mr. 

 Burke said of Admiral Keppel, "though never shewn in insult to 

 any human being, sovietliing high,'' with ideas that the whole 

 South would scout at and rebel against. How was the sober sense 

 and faithful allegiance to his views of Benjamin Moore, in New 

 York, and Abraham Beach and William Frazer, in New Jersey, 

 and of Robert Blackwell and Samuel Magaw, in Pennsylvania, to 

 solve and make mingle these elements apparently so immiscible ? 

 Dr. White, therefore, was ready to give up any mere forms, how- 

 ever much he liked them, to any one, if thereby union among all 

 the churches could be attained. He was ready to retain any forms 

 possible to be retained, if thereby that same result could be se- 

 cured. It was with White and the Church as it was with Lincoln 

 and the Union. The martyr President would continue slavery if 

 it kept us one nation. He would declare emancipation if that 

 secured the blessed end.f Hence when " Samuel, Bishop of Con- 



* See Vol. I., page 388. 



f The same heavenly temper was exhibited by the Bishop in 1836 on .nnoiher 



