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I've been trying to figure out what significance the Trinity Church business held for Thurlow Weed. I might have to get a biography of Weed to do that. Not likely to happen. I'm not even sure of why the proposed legislation was such a "heavy blow" to the church. (From the editors' note for the March 8 entry of G.T.S. diary, reupped below.) I guess an unfavorable outcome could have resulted in other churches in the diocese reaping the income from Trinity's assets. But I don't see that mentioned as being the case. It sounds like an in-house beef of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, so I don't know why the state legislature is even involved. It seems like a civil suit would be more in order. As for Weed and the bill, who knows? At this point he is already more concerned with getting William H. Seward nominated by the Republicans in 1860.