hich detected the
difference between the loyalty of the lip and the heart.... The
elongated countenances in certain quarters for a few days [in December,
1837], will never be forgotten! From the Government House to the poorest
cottage the omnipotent power of the _Guardian_ was proclaimed as
producing this alarming state of things! Indeed, I received a verbal
message from His Excellency on the subject. At this juncture ... the
heads of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches formally addressed
[their adherents] exhorting them to rally to the standard of their
country, and from that hour we have heard nothing but congratulations
and boasts in regard to the readiness ... with which the militia came
forward in all parts of the Province at the call of the Government. It
has been insinuated that I attacked the local Government.... The charge
is unfounded. When the local Government was attacked for having pursued
a different course from that of Lord Durham towards the political
prisoners, I reconciled the course of the two administrations. Several
numbers of the _Guardian_ containing that dissertation were requested
for the Government House, and ... were sent to England.... But when both
my position and myself stand virtually ... impugned by proclamation, I
am neither the sycophant nor the renegade to crouch down under unmerited
imputations, come from whence they may, even though I should suffer
imprisonment and ruin for my temerity.

I am at length exhorted to silence, but not my opponents.... A royal
answer was returned to an address of the Episcopal Clergy a few weeks
since.[95] Nor is silence imposed upon me until the entire weight of the
Chief Magistracy is thrown into the Episcopal scale. If the injunction
had been given to _all_ parties ... then we might have felt ourselves in
some degree equally protected.... But at the moment when the Province is
turned into a camp--when freedom of opinion may be said to exist, but
scarcely to live--when unprecedented power is wielded by the Executive,
and the Habeas Corpus Act is suspended, for one party in the Province to
have free range of denunciation, intimidation, etc., against Methodists
and others ... and then for silence to be enjoined on me and those who
agree with me ... does excite, I confess, my anxious concern, as the
object of it in regard to myself and a large portion of the country
cannot be mistaken.

The despatches of Lord Ripon (Nov. 8th, 1832) and Lord Glenelg (D