feeling. My
reply will occupy about eight columns in to-morrow's _Herald_.

[68] Mr. Dunkin afterwards became a noted politician, and member of the
Parliament of United Canada, from 1857, until Confederation. He was the
promoter of the "Dunkin Act." He was one of the contributors to the
_Monthly Review_, established by Lord Sydenham in 1841. He was
subsequently appointed to the Bench, and died a few years since.

[69] The Hon. John Henry Dunn was a native of England. He came to Canada
in 1820, having been appointed Receiver-General of Upper Canada, and a
member of the Executive and Legislative Council. He held the office of
Receiver-General until the union of the Provinces in 1841, when the
political exigencies of the times compelled him to resign it. He and
Hon. Isaac Buchanan contested the city of Toronto, in the Reform
interest, in 1841, and were returned. Mr. Dunn received no compensation
for the loss of his office, and soon afterwards returned to England,
where he died in 1854. He was a most estimable public officer. His son,
Col. Dunn, greatly distinguished himself during the Crimean war, and, on
his visiting Canada soon afterwards, was received with great enthusiasm,
and a handsome sword was presented to him.--H.

CHAPTER XXV.

1838.

Return to the Editorship of the "Guardian."

The Rebellion of 1837-38 was suppressed by the inherent and spontaneous
loyalty of all classes of the Canadian people. Yet, after it was over,
the seeds of strife engendered by the effort to prove that one section
of the community was more loyal than the other, and that that other
section was chiefly responsible for the outbreak, bore bitter fruit in
the way of controversy. Dr. Ryerson took little part in such
recriminatory warfare. It was too superficial. He felt that it did not
touch the underlying points at issue between the dominant, or ruling,
party and those who were engaged in a contest for equal civil and
religious rights. He, and the other leaders who influenced and moulded
public opinion, clearly saw that this recriminatory war was carried on
by the dominant party as a mask to cover their ulterior designs--designs
which were afterwards developed in the more serious struggle for
religious supremacy which that party waged for years afterwards, and
which at length issued in the complete triumph of the principles of
civil and religious freedom for which Dr. Ryerson and the
representatives of other religious bodies ha