A history of Methodism in the United States . est ofthe minority was an elaborate argumentation of the case;that both Olin and Hamline, former members of the com-mittee, concurred with him. He and his present colleagues,however, would consent to omit from their report the refer-ence to class-leaders (which implied that they were amen-able to the Quarterly Conference for their official conduct)and the supposititious case about Bishop Andrews beingcalled up at the next General Conference if he continuedto exercise his functions. He had not expected the reportto be adopted, but to be placed witho
A history of Methodism in the United States . est ofthe minority was an elaborate argumentation of the case;that both Olin and Hamline, former members of the com-mittee, concurred with him. He and his present colleagues,however, would consent to omit from their report the refer-ence to class-leaders (which implied that they were amen-able to the Quarterly Conference for their official conduct)and the supposititious case about Bishop Andrews beingcalled up at the next General Conference if he continuedto exercise his functions. He had not expected the reportto be adopted, but to be placed without debate by theside of the Protest. Smith, of Virginia, charged the majority with havingattempted to deceive the public long enough, anddesired them to tell the five hundred thousand MethodistsSouth what they wanted to do. The motion to spread the report on the Journal andprint it was carried, and the call of the roll showed onehundred and sixteen votes in the affirmative and twenty-six in the negative. Those in the negative were all from /. f^y^^-c^ ^^Ut^ jd ^zS^^-^fe^^ AFTER ADJOURNMENT. I05 the South except seven; and of those in the affirmativetwenty were from the South. The conference adjourned about midnight on the lothof June. Before departing from the city, on the nth, the South-ern delegates met to deliberate on their future issued an address to the ministers and members oftheir conferences, giving information of the action of theGeneral Conference with respect to a possible this they said, It affords us pleasure to state that therewere those found among the majority who made this prop-osition with every manifestation of justice and liberality,and, should a similar spirit be exhibited by the AnnualConferences in the North, there will remain no legal im-pediment to its legal consummation. They recommendedthat, to prevent undue haste and forestall divided coun-sels, nothing be done till the conferences representedcould meet in a general convent
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