ressions by some of
the journals, and, I am sorry to say, with too much effect. These
remarks, taken in connection with those against Mr. Hume, is the
pivot on which everything is turned against you, against the
_Guardian_, and against the Methodists.

A few days later Dr. Ryerson received another letter from Mr. Griffin,
in which he truthfully says:--

Perhaps there have not been many instances in which sophistry has
been applied more effectually to injure an individual, or a body of
Christians, as in the present instance. Whigs, tories, and radicals
have all united to crush, I may say at a blow, the Methodists, and
none have tried to do so more effectually than Mr. W. L. Mackenzie.
He persisted in it so as to make his friends generally believe that
the cause of reform was ruined by you. His abuse of you and your
friends, and the Methodists, is more than I can stand. He has
certainly manifested a great want of discernment, or he has acted
from design. I see that the Hamilton _Free Press_ has called in the
aid of Mr. F. Collins, of the _Canadian Freeman_, to assist in
abusing you and your whole family.

From Augusta, Rev. Anson Green wrote about the same time, and in a
similar strain, but not so sympathetically. He says:--

I fear your impressions are bad ones. Our people are all in an
uproar about them.

_Nov. 22nd._--Rev. William Ryerson writing from Kingston at this time,
reports the state of feeling there. He says:--

As to the _Guardian_, I am sorry to inform you that it is becoming
less popular than formerly. If your English "impressions" are not
more acceptable and useful in other parts than they are here, it
will add little to your credit, or to the usefulness of your paper
to publish any more of them. I know that you have been shamefully
abused, and treated in a most base manner, and by no one so much so
as by Mr. Radcliffe of the Cobourg _Reformer_. I hope you will
expose the statements and figures of the _Reformer_ to our friends.
It is rather unfortunate that if you did intend, as is said, to
conciliate the Tory party in this country, you should have
expressed yourself in such a way as to be so much misunderstood.

_Nov. 23rd._--Rev. Alvah A. Adams, writing from Prescott, says:--

There are a few disturbances in our Zion. Some are bent on making
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