ers are hooted at as they ride by. This is rather
trying. I assure you.

Rev. James Evans said:--

You request me not to solicit any to continue the _Guardian_ who
are dissatisfied, and who wish to discontinue. This is worse than
all beside. And do you suppose that, in opposition to the wish of
the Conference, and interest of the Church, I shall pay attention
to your request? No, my brother, I cannot; I will not. It shall be
my endeavour to obtain and continue subscribers by allaying as far
as practicable, their fears, rather than by telling them that they
may discontinue and you will abide the consequences. I am
astonished! I can only account for your strange and, I am sure,
un-Ryersonian conduct and advice on one principle--that there is
something ahead which you, through your superior political
spyglass, have discovered and thus shape your course, while we
land-lubbers, short-sighted as we are, have not even heard of it.

Dr. Ryerson, therefore, challenged these five ministers to proceed
against him as provided by the Discipline of the Church. In his reply to
them, he lays down some important principles in regard to the rights of
an editor, and the duty of his ministerial accusers. He said:--

I beg to say that I cannot publish the criminating declaration of which
you speak. You will therefore act your pleasure in publishing it
elsewhere. The charges against me are either true or false. If they are
true, are you proceeding in the disciplinary way against me? Though I am
editor for the Conference, yet I have individual rights as well as you;
and the increased responsibility of my situation should, under those
rights, if possible, be still more sacred. And if our Conference will
place a watchman upon the wall of our Zion, and then allow its members
to plunge their swords into him whenever they think he has departed from
his duty, without even giving him a court-martial trial, then they are a
different description of men from what I think they are. If, as you say,
I have been guilty of imprudent conduct, or even "misrepresented my
brethren," make your complaint to my Presiding Elder, according to
discipline, and then may the decision of the Committee be published in
the _Guardian_, or anywhere else that they may say. So much for the
disciplinary course. Again, if "the clamour," as you call it, against
the _Guardian_ be well founded, are you helping