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Bishops Polk
& Elliott
March 23 1861

University Place
Franklin Cy. Tenn.
March 23 1861

Rt Rev & Dear Sir

The rapid march of Events
and the change which has taken
place in our civil relations seem
to us, your Brethren in the Episcopate,
to require an early consultation
among the Dioceses of the Confede-
rate States for the purpose of consid-
ering their relations to the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church of the United
States of which they have so long
been the equal and happy members