of the injustice done to the Methodist people by means of the
prolonged and persistent misrepresentation of these years. He said:--

I address your Excellency with feelings of the highest respect and
strong affection. You are the first Governor of Canada who has
exerted his personal influence and the authority of his station,
to accomplish that in Upper Canada which has been avowed and
promised by every Colonial-Secretary during the last ten
years--framing enactments and administering the Government for the
equal protection and benefit of all classes of Her Majesty's
Canadian subjects.... In doing so, your Excellency has been told
that you have patronized "republicans and rebels." ... The
_Guardian_, which you have been pleased to honour with an
expression of your approbation, has been charged with opposite
crimes from different quarters.... You have been told that the
ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church--whose rights you have
justly and kindly consulted--have formerly come from the United
States; and that the _Guardian_, during the first years of its
existence, was nothing but a vehicle of radicalism, disaffection,
and sedition.... As to the former, I may say that the Methodist
ministers have not come from ... the United States during the last
twenty years.... As to the latter, I furnish three columns of
extracts from the _Guardian_, ... from which the following may be
adduced:--

1. That in 1830 I entertained less friendship towards our American
neighbours than I do in 1840.

2. That in 1830 I advocated the very principles in the
administration of the Provincial Government that your Excellency
has declared to be the basis of your administration in 1840.

3. That in 1830 I was as strongly opposed to an exclusive, or
sectarian, spirit as I am in 1840.

4. That the very advice which I gave to the electors in 1830, as to
their rights and interests, I could now repeat with a view to
support your Excellency's administration.

5. That the very principles upon which your Excellency has
commenced your administration, ... were actually promised and
assured to the people of Upper Canada by a Tory Government in 1830.

In 1830 the Colonial-Secretary and Sir John Colborne proclaimed the
"good laws and free institutions," and the non-preferen