rd to his own principles, and so elaborately careful in his details as
to extort admiration of his energy and of his patience in research.

But the reason for which we notice this pamphlet, is, with a view to the
proof of that large intestine mischief which still lingers behind in the
vitals of the Scottish establishment. No proof, in a question of that
nature, _can_ be so showy and _ostensive_ to a stranger, as that which is
supplied by this vindictive pamphlet. For every past vote recording a
scruple, is the pledge of a scruple still existing, though for the moment
suppressed. Since the secession, nearly 450 new men may have entered the
church. This supplementary body has probably diluted the strength of the
revolutionary principles. But they also may, perhaps, have partaken to
some extent in the contagion of these principles. True, there is this
guarantee for caution, on the part of these new men, that as yet they are
pledged to nothing; and that, seeing experimentally how fearfully many of
their older brethren are now likely to be fettered by the past, they have
every possible motive for reserve, in committing themselves, either by
their votes or by their pens. In _their_ situation, there is a special
inducement to prudence, because there is a prospect, that for _them_
prudence is in time to be effectual. But for many of the older men,
prudence comes too late. They are already fettered. And what we are now
pointing out to the attention of our readers, is, that by the past, by the
absolute votes of the past, too sorrowfully it is made evident, that the
Scottish church is deeply tainted with the principles of the secession.
These germs of evil and of revolution, speaking of them in a _personal_
sense, cannot be purged off entirely until one generation shall have
passed away. But, speaking of them as _principles_ capable of vegetation,
these germs may or may not expand into whole forests of evil, according to
the accidents of coming events, whether fitted to tranquillize our billowy
aspects of society; or, on the other hand, largely to fertilize the many
occasions of agitation, which political fermentations are too sure to
throw off. Let this chance turn out as it may, we repeat for the
information of Southerns--that the church, by shutting off the persons of
particular agitators, has not shut off the principles of agitation; and
that the _cordon sanataire_, supposing the spontaneous exile of the
Non-intrusionists to be