Governors Authorized Convention Call
In the article in another column, on Persecution Wanted, from the Advent Christian Times, the statement is made that the names of the governors of two States, Massachusetts and Connecticut, were used without their consent, in the call for the late National Convention in Cincinnati, to secure the Religious Amendment of the Constitution. Whereupon the Times takes occasion to praise the leaders in this movement in the following style: “This indicates the need of a religious amendment among the would-be amenders of the Constitution, whatever the Constitution itself may need.” A similar statement is going the rounds of the papers to quite an extent. But in the last number of The Christian Statesman, March 1, 1872, now before us, correspondence is given from both these men, Gov. Jewell and Gov. Washburn, showing that those who used their names were fully warranted in so doing. People may be assured that those who are conducting this movement are not acting in so careless or reckless a manner as to make unwarranted use of any person's name.