James Hervey Otey Papers Box 1 Folder 15 Document 114

must assume that power. Continually do we experience this conflict of duties. But in adjusting them, we may not throw out one clap entirely: we merely make it yield in that one particular wherein it conflicts.

Bishop Polk's Pastoral in itself becomes a Precedent.

In the uncertain future befor us, in the many political combinations which we may live to see, what uncertainty and confusion may arise out the principle that a change of civil relation involves at once a change of the Ecclesiastical.

I cannot express the exceeding interest and the painful anxiety with which I wait for the action, final