Another example of this vicious and disgraceful mode of warfare is
contained in a pamphlet published at the _Kingston Chronicle_
office, with a view of preventing the soldiers from deserting to
the United States.... I copy the following infamous passages,
purporting to be written by a deserter [name and regiment not
given]:--Well, I deserted. Ryerson never rested till he worked me
up to the deed. I was like a child in his hands--he led me as he
pleased.... It was only to get clear off, and then the road to all
that I ever wished for was open before me--so said Ryerson, etc....
Ryerson has two or three more on hand, etc.

Dr. Ryerson adds:--

I had marked other passages of a like character, from the
_Patriot_, the _Cobourg Star_, and the _Statesman_.... Such are the
barbarous weapons used to pull down the religious liberties of the
people of this Province, and to establish a church domination.

While Dr. Ryerson was at the Conference at Hamilton, in 1839, Rev. D.
McMullen, of Hillier, in a letter to him, said:--

I have read the _Guardian_ with some attention during the past
year. I believe the general principles of political, civil, and
ecclesiastical policy advocated in it are such as must be supported
and ultimately prevail, or our country will be ruined. Yet, while I
admire the talent displayed by you, it is still a question with me
whether you, as a Methodist minister, in conducting a religious
journal, are justifiable in going the lengths you do in discussions
of a political character. I know that your ability and your
intimate acquaintance with the state of things in the country, with
parties, and all the questions at issue, etc., render you a very
competent person (perhaps the most so of any other in the country)
to write on these subjects; nor do I think that you ought to bury
this talent, but that through some other medium than the
_Guardian_, you should employ it for the country's good, and in a
way that would occasion less dissatisfaction among our people, and
excite and stir up less bad feeling against us and you from
without.

At the same Conference, Dr. Ryerson received a strong letter of approval
and encouragement from Mr. Hugh Moore, a highly respected and active
member of the Church in Dundas. Mr. Moore said:--

I came to Hamilton this