a battle to fight with Sir Francis
Head, for "I guess" he knows something of your Kingston friend.

From Mr. Alder's reply, I make the following extracts:--

There is no man, either in the Canadas or at home, better
acquainted with the former and present state of these fine
provinces than Mr. Ryerson, as his letters in the _Times_, signed
"A Canadian," testify. Even his Kingston slanderer admits that the
facts stated in these letters were, in the main exceedingly
correct, indisputably true, and for the publication of which he is
entitled to the grateful thanks of every loyal subject throughout
British North America. But the malice of an adversary is too often
swifter than the gratitude of those who have derived benefit from
our services. This is proved in the case of Mr. Ryerson; for while
every radical and republican journal in the province has teemed
with communications vilifying his character and motives in the
strongest terms, a stinted meed of praise has been doled out to
him....

No wonder that persons in this country deeply interested in Canada
frequently consulted him; no wonder that the British North American
Land Company re-published his letters from the _Times_ at their own
expense. And it is to the honour of the noble lord at the head of
the Colonial Department, that he did obtain from so intelligent and
influential an individual as Mr. Ryerson, information respecting
the state of parties in a country so well-known to him. If his
information and advice, and that of another "Methodist Parson" in
Canada, had been received and acted upon elsewhere, there is reason
to believe that Mackenzie and his traitorous associates would not
have been permitted to unfurl the standard of rebellion in the
midst of a peaceful and loyal people. (See pages 176 and 183.)

The inspired truth that "A man's foes shall be they of his own
household" received many a painful illustration in Dr. Ryerson's
history. In 1838, it was reduced to a system. The assailant was often "A
Wesleyan," or, "A True Wesleyan," and under the friendly _aegis_ of four
or five papers, which were usually hostile to Methodism itself, the
attack would be made. From numerous examples noted in the _Guardian_, I
select a specimen:--

The rebellious _Guardian_ is shut against us; its cry is war,
havoc, and bloodshed,