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Show Tlie Third Term Metludlsts. New York, 14. Professor Wells, who made a speech before Bishop Haven at the now famous Boston preachers' meeting, and to whom was attributed the language that Grant was the savior of his country, and that the people could not dispense with his services, writes a card to say: The truth is I never alluded to Gen. Grant in any way, shape or manner whatever, and in the whole course of my remarks I had not the most distant dis-tant thought or allusion to him. Concerning Con-cerning what followed. I do not believe a single individual came there with the slightest anticipation of what would be said by the bishop, j The whole tenor of my speech from begiuning to end was a censure of ecclesiastical interference with civil government in Europe, and as such the locica! sequence could seareely be the inlcFmeUUliug ol the Methodist' church with national politics. |