town
and country, whose feelings have not only been wounded and grieved,
but have rendered the prospects of a union in this place more than
ever entirely hopeless. I have not been considered fit (probably
for want of ability) to act as Superintendent of such an important
station; I have no authority to receive or expel a member, or even
to preside in a meeting of Stewards and Leaders; while my
Superintendent is in Montreal or Quebec; whether or not he will so
stoop as to visit us at all, we cannot say. Besides being shut out
of the British Wesleyan Chapel, every possible means is being used
to prevent a single individual of their Society from attending our
Chapel; and my field of labour is not only greatly circumscribed,
but the prospect of usefulness is nearly destroyed. What my
feelings must be, under such circumstances, you can easily judge. I
can only say that as soon as I can see a way opened, and can do so
consistently, I will not labour as a travelling preacher one day
longer.

_January 8th, 1834._--His brother John, in another letter to Dr. Ryerson
from Hallowell, said:--

Whoever may be the agents in making alterations in our economy, I
will not be one. With "improvements," alterations, unions, and
disunions, we have been agitated long enough. I am done with such
business, henceforth and forever. At our last Conference it was
understood, and expressly stated that no alterations would
hereafter be attempted; and so we have assured the people. But
behold, before they receive that assurance, some alterations are
mooted. Do away with the Presiding Elders, lessen the Districts,
etc., and a dozen other things which will necessarily follow. The
reason urged for these changes is worse than the things
themselves--namely: If we don't, the British Missionaries will
write to the Superintendents and raise such a storm in England,
etc., etc. If this is the way we are to be governed, and if this is
the state of the Connexion at home, the Resolutions on Union, on
parchment or paper, are a miserable farce. The more I think on this
subject, the worse I like it.

In a letter from Kingston to Dr. Ryerson on this subject, Rev. Joseph
Stinson says:--

I have done my utmost to promote the union of the two Societies in
this town. If things are carried with too h