sully the
pages of _The Una_. Mr. Channing's rebuke is severe, but we believe it
to have been richly deserved and given in true Christian love."

ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1853.

EDITORS SUNDAY MERCURY:--You ask for proof that Rev. John
Chambers took part in the brutal insult offered to a Christian
gentlewoman at the late "World's Temperance Convention." I was
_witness_ of the conduct of that man and his abettors during that
_cowardly transaction_, and I hereby charge him with being a
ringleader in that platform row.

When my honored friend and fellow-delegate, the Rev. Antoinette
L. Brown, was standing calm, yet firm, amidst those rude
scoffers, the words of the Psalmist kept sounding in my ear:
"Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me roundabout, gaping upon me
with their mouths." I marked the _biggest_ of the herd with the
purpose, at the first suitable season, of laying on one blow of
the lash with such a will that it should cut through any hide,
however callous. That season came when, as a delegate, I was
called upon to report to the "Toronto Division of the Sons of
Temperance" how my fellow-delegate had been treated.

But having thus _indicted the bully_ and put him on trial in open
court, I merely record my testimony and leave him to go to
judgment; the public will render a verdict, pass sentence, and
inflict the _penalty_ in the pillory where he has placed himself;
may their justice be tempered with mercy. It was necessary, in
order to _protect women_ in future from the _insolence of
tyrants_, to make this example; yet let him be cordially pardoned
as soon as he gives sincere proof of penitence.

WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING.

Another letter of Mr. Channing's of same date to the editor of _The
Daily Register_:

SIR:--Respect for yourself, your readers, and your paper, prompts
me to reply at once to your article headed, "Answer," etc., by
Rev. John Chambers, which, through the courtesy of some friend,
reached me last evening. I must be frank, but will aim to be
brief.

And first, Mr. Birney, a word to yourself. You knew me in "former
days as mild," etc., and were not prepared for such a speech; you
charitably suggest that its "vindictiveness" may be owing to a
substituti