be paid over to it by Lord Glenelg. The matter had to be
contested with Sir F. B. Head on the floor of the House of Assembly
before he could be induced to obey the Royal instructions. (Page 179.)

8. In the recent legislation on the clergy reserve question, the high
church party resisted every measure by which the Methodist Church might
obtain a farthing's aid to the Upper Canada Academy. And, to add insult
to injury, the high church people denounce Methodists as republicans,
rebels, traitors, and use every possible epithet and insinuation of
contumely because they complain, reason, and remonstrate against such
barefaced oppression and injustice--notwithstanding that not a single
member of that church has been convicted of complicity with the late
unhappy troubles in the Province.

9. A perpetuation of the past and present obnoxious and withering
system, will not only continue to drive thousands of industrious farmers
and tradesmen from the country, but will prompt thousands more, before
they will sacrifice their property and expatriate themselves, to
advocate constitutionally, openly, and decidedly, the erection of an
"independent kingdom," as has been suggested by the Attorney-General, as
best both for this province and Great Britain.

10. It rests with Her Majesty's Government to decide whether or not the
inhabitants shall be treated as strangers and helots; whether the
blighted hopes of this province shall wither and die, or revive, and
bloom, and flourish; whether Her Majesty's Canadian subjects shall be
allowed the legitimate constitutional control of their own earnings, or
whether the property sufficient to pay off the large provincial debt
shall be wrested from them; whether honour, loyalty, free and
responsible government are to be established in this province, or
whether our resources are to be absorbed in support of pretensions
which have proved the bane of religion in the country; have fomented
discord; emboldened, if not prompted, rebellion; turned the tide of
capital and emigration to other shores; impaired public credit; arrested
trade and commerce, and caused Upper Canada to stand "like a girdled
tree," its drooping branches mournfully betraying that its natural
nourishment has been deliberately cut off.

In a third and concluding letter to Lord Normanby, Dr. Ryerson uses this
language:--

The great body of the inhabitants of this province will not likely again
petition on the question of the clerg