upon you, or, at all events, to defend the ministerial
character from those who deprive it of all manliness and
independence, I send you Hetherington's "History of the Church of
Scotland." On one page, and in the note referred to, you will find
the methods and conduct of Knox explained. It will be the best, as
well as the most truthful policy on your part, to show your
agreement with this great character. The effect will be great, not
only on the Methodist Scotch, but all other Scotch in the Colony,
for we are all for national, instead of party, freedom; we prefer
our country to our party.

It may be my fondness for my country; but I think no other country,
or people, have ever shown that indomitable love of equal justice
and rational, because national freedom, as opposed to party
supremacy, as we have done in Scotland.

I feel sure that you may make some happy illustrations from
Hetherington's History to enlighten the public on the present state
of affairs, when we are about to be enthralled by party tyranny,
and do much to revive the spirit:

"Ne'er will I quail with down-cast eye
Beneath the frown of tyranny;
In freedom I have lived, in freedom I will die."

The history of our Church is not only the history of Scotland, but
the history of the world's freedom from the tyranny of men, or
parties.

Dr. Ryerson had written to His Excellency in regard to the issue of his
letters in a pamphlet with a full index. To this letter Mr. Higginson
replied on the 19th August:--

I am desired by His Excellency to repeat his thanks for your
continued exertions in support of Her Majesty's Government.

Your index to the pamphlet will be exceedingly useful. I should
like very much to have the pamphlet translated into French, for the
benefit of the Lower Canadians, and perhaps I shall be able to
accomplish it. I should be obliged by your ordering a few hundred
copies to be sent to me for distribution in the Eastern Townships.

FOOTNOTES:

[123] By a singular popular error, which this sentence may have
suggested, it was stated and generally believed that the Defence of Lord
Metcalfe by Dr. Ryerson was written and published under _the nom de
plume of_ "Leonidas."

CHAPTER XLII.

1844-1845.

After the Contest.--Reaction and Reconstruction.

Dr. Ryerson natural