ec.
15th, 1835) recommended a "comprehensive liberality" in every
department, and in all the acts of the Government, they conceded in full
the popular demands on the clergy reserve question, and deprecated the
establishment of any religious corporations until the advice of the
local Legislature had been obtained--these very despatches Sir F. B.
Head promised to carry out.... But has that pledge been redeemed by him?
Has it not been grossly violated?... In his appointments and dismissals
from office, and in the whole tone and spirit of his government, did not
Sir F. B. Head become the head of a party instead of the Governor of the
Province?... The result of his new system of government already is
derangement of the currency--insurrection--bloodshed--loss of
property--demoralization, by calling large bodies of men from rural to
military employments--decrease of population--cessation of
immigration--decrease of credit--decrease of revenue--increase of the
public debt--decrease of the value of property--increase of popular
dissatisfaction--vast military expenditures from the taxes of an
overburthened British population--insecurity of person and property, and
general distrust. Under these "Church and King" counsels, for two years
more, and this province will be a Paradise!... We have laboured hard to
obtain and secure many blessings for our native land, but certainly not
such blessings as these!

In connection with this discussion, a Kingston paper stated that Dr.
Ryerson was moved by ambitious motives. In reply Dr. Ryerson said:--As
to my motives of ambition, etc., my enemies will probably concede to me
two or three things. 1. That long before Sir F. B. Head came to Upper
Canada I had been honoured by as large a share of popular favour in this
province as any individual could reasonably expect or desire.... 2. That
the path to royal favour has been opened as widely to me as it is
possible for it to be opened to any clerical individual who has laid it
down as a rule, and stated it to Ministers of the Crown and Governors,
that he never could knowingly receive a farthing from any quarter, or in
any way, which was not pointed out and authorized by the discipline of
his Church. But as a love of popular favour has not obliterated from my
recollection the rightful prerogatives of the Crown, I cannot see why I
should thereby be disqualified from a disinterested maintenance of
constitutional rights, especially when many more are imm