The whole line of defence was indicated by the gentlemen who moved and seconded the Address.

An active, well-supported Church was the chief need of a prosperous and intelligent people.

As to the endowments, there was some confusion of ideas; but nothing was to be done with them inappropriate to religion.

Education would receive the bulk of what was left after existing interests had been amply guaranteed.

There would be no doubt,--so said these gentlemen,--that ample funds for the support of an Episcopal Church would come from those wealthy members of the body to whom such a Church was dear.
There seemed to be a conviction that clergymen under the new order of things would be much better off than under the old.