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Such base atid miserable shifts are easily exposed and apprehended, and will recoil upon their author in damage and disgrace. My published letters, which are, in fact, and in the estimation of others, methodical, you call "amorphous;" disclosures and state- ments in letters, you call "pleadings;" what was, in reality, the case of the Missionary Secretaries, the case of tlieir impeachment anr^ trial, you speak of as my case ; an unrighteous decision of the Committee and the Conference, you call "dismissal and rebuke;" you speak of backing and dubbing, as if you were familiar with the ring or the tuif ; when you can no longer deny my calmness in Exeter- hall, though you slanderously denied it at firstj you quibble about words ; the avowal that I prepared the memorial, you call a vaunt ; and you talk of doing "job-work," and " blowing hot and cold on porridge," like a perfect master of slang. The man who does the "job work" ofjj^ra^c/t- iwxihy under the strict revision and scrutiny of the Mission-house, should remember the folly of throwing stones out of a glass-house. Pity that ycu write with such random ignorance and misuse of words. [. Your Obtuseness. You cannot see the difference between "leaving" and "sentencing" an accuser to pay the costs, as if either word indicated, with equal propriety, a judicial decree ; or the difFevenco between protesting against the secretaries, and trying them ; or the difference between influencing tiktai to sign a meraorial, and afterwards promoting the memorial ; and you cannot distinguish the acts and pro- ceedings of a committee from its report and resolutions. Your dulness is either very pitiable or very blameable. If the first, your proper remedy is to return to school, and to study IiiUfiaagwiphy. Allow me to ask, if a committee can- not adopt a resolution which is not embodied in their report £tnd resolutions for another tribunal ? and if they can- not mutilate, at a secret and partial meeting, what was agreed upon at a previous and full meeting ? Does not a Pioport mutilate the proceedings of a Judicial Committee .when it wholly omits one of the committee's most important resolutions ? And does it not comport with the Connexional trickery and injustice which I have exposed, for a Judical Committee to recommend a minister's hanishment, in order that that recommendation may operate orally on the Station- ing Committee, while yet, from policy, the recommendation is excluded from the Committee's written Report ? As to my "alliterative expression," first used in a letter, and then quoted on the platform, it was applied to none, but intended for all whom it suits. Can you discern this differ- ence ? I am neither so silly as to be " sadly nettled " by anything you can say, nor so undignified as to make "ex- cuses " to you. You cannot or you will not see the diflference between the fiiiality of the Minor Meeting's decision respecting the charge, and the perfect practicability of founding a new charge on the unproved defence, u . libellous or slanderous, and preferring this charge in the Annual District Meeting, under the head of character. The Annual District Meeting could not and would not reverse the Minor Meeting's decree, but it could take cognisance of a new accusation. Instead of such an accusation, the secretaries themselves have shown that the plaintiff, Mr. Edmondson, had no objection whatever to the defendant, Mr. Bleby, for his defence or for anything else. I do not say that the defence of Mr. Bleby contained "irre- levant" matter; but I say it was unproved matter, which needed no reply in the Minor Meeting, and in relation to the indictment of that meeting ; and I say it was no more irre- levant than Mr. Edmondson's evidence and statements ; ahd, if it be necessary, I cau adduce particulars and make queer disclosures. In the Minor Meeting there was no " sin- gular postponement of defence ; " but there was a just and pru n any period of my life, respecting Ung pline. Such asking and answering, in n to Canadian Methodist discipUnOi and my ordination. The District Meeting had " duly observed and enforced our have not myself been so asked, and havi respecting any discipliae, since 1838, ex that are elicited in each Annual Missli ing, respecting the official adminislratt the past year. Iv, Your further Falsehoods. 1. That I a. a hasty, passionate, ai &c. Greater misstatements you coii always write deliberately and calmly, t and earnestly. 2. That i am, " at this moment, i frame of mind, because no further offic of me." It is impossible for hui or human hand to indite a more untrutl this, for which you have not even the si It ia the falsehood of absurdity to say th because no further official notice is t( from whom I have freely and entirely wi delinquencies I at once detest and disck as the Missionary Secretaries I have n stoop in wrangling, though 1 have goo that they are anxiously occupied behi scenes ; and to talk of my wish to re-o] the courts of Wosleyanism, I have vc ever, bj' my renunciation of a corrup most palpable misstatement of which m 3. Equally absurd and false is your s exasperated at neglect, when the fact i: diated, utterly and for ever, either t neglect of the Clique and its coadjutors. 4. But the crowning falsehood is yoi ment, that I am seeking to prolong ten attracting some attention from you ; wl am merely defending myself against y ness, obtuseness, misrepresentations, 11 liquity, and perverseness. So, when a self with his shield, and Idraws his s\ saults of a nocturnal foe, ycleped a Wat to attract some attention horn that foe, if you can, and confess that the force o of falsehood can nc further Igo. 'J'heso four falsehoods and those previ aaODre. "Therefore, putting away ly m-i/ii the truth with his neighbour." sailt Dr. Bunting, "is consirvative cf M conserve ! ] v. Your Omissions an^ Ev.vsions. 1. Neither you nor your fitting coadj tation and meanness, the " Vindicator,' to my exposure of the illegality, injusti( various acts of Conference ii 1 1849 and s 2. The omissions in your Nos. 881 an last week, nro r.e.t supplied t in v e.;;r l.tst points omitted are both nuiBerous "nd c 3. To most of mj' charge^ againsu yc nes3, falsehood, and moral (ibliquity, yo whatever. 4. You neither attempt to maintai nibbling theology, nor endeavour to n and arguments. Instead of grappling witli the great of my letters, you seize a few points f tion ; instead of fairly and logically co; * Al^D "YmDICATOR" EXPOSED, The Wesley an Times ofDecemh&r 8, 1851. disparaging me, when, in fact, I did nothing but raa* right, and what perfectly comports with all my lent conduct. The articles I wrote are before me id I can publish them if necessary. Both you and ''indicator " will find me armed at all points in this forsy. ou confound my ecclesiastical views with my Motho- riows, and, on this confusion, you build slanderous tioDS. It is a pure fabrication oven to inti- lat I held my present e timate of Methodism while I 'ending it in newspapers. My defence in newspapers t of what I now condemn, but of aspersed mission- and it was not contemporaneous ' with my present dge of Methodism and of Divine teaching, is also a pure fabrication, and in direct opposition to blished reasons for resigning, to say that very re- I have been asked, and have answered, respecting achment to Wesleyan doctrine and discipline. I )ver been so asked, and I havj never so answerec?, at riod of my life, respecting MnglUh Wesleyan diSci- Such asking and answering, in my case, related only adian Methodist discipline^ and never occurred after Ination. The District Meeting has been asked if I duly observed ami enforced our discipline;" but I )t myself been so asked, and have never "o answered, ing any discipliao, since 1838, excepting the answers re elicited in each Annual Missionary District Meet- specting the official administration of Methodism in It year. Your further Falsehoods, hat I a. a hasty, passionate, angry, and agitated. Greater misstatements you could not publish. I write deliberately and calmly, though, also, plainly rnestly. hat i am, " at this moment. In the most uneasy )f mind, because no further official notice is taken (." It is impossible for human lips to utter an hand to indite a more untruthful statement than r which you have not even the shadow of a pretext, le falsehood of absurdity to say that I am most uneasy 5 no further official notice is taken of me by men hom I have freely and entirely withdrawn, and whose leucies I at once detest and disclose. With such men Missionary Secretaries I have no wish whatever to a wrangling, though 1 have good reason to balievo ley are anxiously occupied behind your newspaper ; and to talk of my wish to re-open a case which, in Lirts of Wosleyanisni, I have voluntarily closed for y my renunciation of a corrupt Connexion, is the alpable misstatement of which man can be guilty, qually absurd and false is your statement that I am rated at neglect, when the fact is, that I have ropu- utterly and for ever, either the attention or the . of the Clique and its coadjutors, ut the crowning falsehood is your unblushing state- that I am seeking to prolong temporary notoriety by ing some attention from you ; when you know that I rely defending myself against your artifice, unfair- tbtuseness, misrepresentations, falsehoods, moral ob- , and perverseness. So, when a traveller covers him- th his shield, and jdraws his sword against the as- jf a nocturnal foe, ycleped a Watchman, his object is ict some attention from that foe. Blush for shame, !an, and confess that the force of folly and the front hood can nc further Igo. 10 four falsehoods and those previously exposed, make . " Therefore, putting away lying, speak ye every iie truth with his neighbour." "The Watchman," p. Bunting, "is consirvative cf Methodism." What a TQ\ I fouR Omissions an*) Ev.vsions. either you nor your fitting coadjutor in misrepresen- and meanness, the " Vindicator," attempts any reply sxposure of the illegality, injustice, and sinfulness of acts of Conference ii 1 1849 and since, he omissions in your Nos. 881 and 882, which I noted ck, aro not supplied l in y awv \A9.t issue, Andgtettlie- omitted are both nuiBerous "nd momentous. most of mj' charge^ againsu you for artifice, unfair- ilsehood, and moral (ibliquity, you attempt no defence ■or. bu neither attempt to maintain your maimed and g theology, nor endeavour to refute my distinctions ^uments. sad of grappling witli the great facts and arguments [otters, you seize a few points for editorial expatia- u.stoiid of fairly and logically consjdoring these, you of a man who denounces the institutions of his country, and disparages and threatens the judges, because he htis lost his cause on appeal. You know that ii altogether false ; because you know that it was not my cause that Was lost ; and that my course arises, not from the failure of the impeachment, but from the developed despotism and corruption of the Conference, and from the discovered un-Scripturalnesa ef the Wesleyan polity. Such logic as you attribute to me is not mine at all, but an issue of your own brain. You say that my case " depends on one position — the finality of Minor District Meetmgs." If you do not know this to be altogether false, you are lamentably dull ; be- cause it has been clearly and fully shown, in the papers of the memorialists, which came before yourself and others in committee, that, whether the decision of the Minor Meeting was reversible or not, the interference of the secretaries was altogether unwarrantable and illegal. The doctrine of the finality, not of Minor Meetings in general but of a Minor Meeting, for settling clerical differ- ences, you describe as wild and preposterous rant. Yet this is the doctrine of the Conference, which says : — " If there be a difference between two preachers in a district, the respec- tive parties shall choose two preachers ; and the chairiaan of the district, with the four preachers so chosen, shall be final arbiters to determine the matter in dispute." So you yourself accuse the Conference of wild and preposterous rant ! And is Mr. Samuel Jackson also among the Re- formers ? I have heard many stiong things froin them, but nothing to surpass this. I have heard the bad laws of the Conference described as "baubles for priests and fetters foi* foo!s ; " but never as wild and preposterous rant, as " monstrous and unheard < . loctrine," till you made the discovery. But, for you to jay that my " Wi . cose de- Eends" on this doctrine, is certainly monstrc. and un- eard-of misstatement. Besides, it must also be recollected, that the Minor Meet- ing for whose finality I contend is not merely a Minor Meet- ing unde the aforesaid law, but also one from which no appeal is claimed or made ; whose operation is unresisted, unquestioned, immediate, and complete; which was never cognosced by any higher tribunal ; and the bare rehearsal of whose proceedings is officially and personally resisted by the defeated party. All this your logic finds it convenient to overlook and omit. You say that "i*"the decision of a Minor District Meeting may be set aside at all, the means of doing it is altogether a secondary consideration." Of course, in the school of Pro- testant Jes\iitism, the end warrants, and even sanctifies, the means ; and, in the school of Wesleyan Cliqueism, the means of setting aside a Minor Meeting is a purely secondary con- sideration, provided it be done for the sake of the Clique, and by members, or servants, of the Clique. Mr. Bromley was expelled to maintain District Meetings ; and the Mis- sionary clerks are eulogised for impertinently, clandestinely, usurpingly, and iniquitously overturning, or attempting to overturn, a constitutional District Meeting, that was final In fact OS well as in law, and against whose procedure not a single charge has ever been substantiated. It is easy to talk of the procedure of this meeting as " unprecedented and extraordinary," without, at the same time, fairly saying what that procedure was, and without reference to the fact, that the defeated party declined and resisted every proper means and opportunity of cognoscing his opponent s lan- guage, and signed the record that there was no objection whatever to any brother in tho district. You say that I am indignant because the memorial " was not read in full to the Conference, and discussed at length there." You know full well that I do not complain that the memorial was not " discussed at fiill length there ;" and you ought not to be guilty of such a fabrication. You know that, instead of this, I declared, in my protest, that the proper course was to road the memorial, and refer it, if necessary, to a committee ; and you know that what I pro* test against is not only the non-perusal, but the irrelevant and deceptive speeches; of Messrs. Scott and Duncan, of which von talfa "^ r./->f;Qa T .^in« 1- — * r" •-T7T7:'?^ brother s conduct, in the chair, in bringing the memorial before the Conference at the only time when Dr. Beaumont happened to be late in his attendance, and in allowing a conversation depreciatory of Dr. Beaumont to take place in his absence. With the applications of Messrs. Rowden and Mearns, for leave to return to England, I have nothing to do ; and what I said, in m;- own application, was perfectly explicit. Very artfully and unfiiirly you speak of New Brunswick and Canada as almost the same, though they a e hundreds wnicr needed no rop^y in the Minor Meeting, and in relation to the indictment ot that meetinc ; and I say it was no more irre- levant thfjn Mr, Edmondson's evidence and ntatements ; ahd, if it bo necessary, I can adduce pariiculara and make queer disclosures. In the Minor Meeting there was no " sin- gular postponement of defence ; " but there was ajuat and prudoni disallowance of litigfation on an unproved and, therefore, immaterial defence. You deny that " such a ccmmittee [as that on the memo- rial] could take any action apart from or beyond its official Report." Vou aie, therefore, so obtuse that you cannot see the difference between taking action by a resolution not re- ported in writing to the Conference, but reported orally or not at all to the Stationing Committee, and taking action by a resolution that was reported in writing to the Confer- ence. Your blindness is really marvellous ! You cannot see the difiference between " prolonged iiives- tigation," which alone I avowed, and "long-matured change OF VIEW," which I did not avow, but whioh you falsely ascribe to mo, II, Your Inconsistence, 1. On the ene hand, you declare that "the moment it becomes a personal quarrel between the reverend gentleman and ourselves, it is our fixed determination to dismiss him to hector at his full leisure, sole combatant in the field," thus disclaiming all personalities ; on the other hand, and at the very same time, you interlard and overload your editorial remarks with the following 8currilou.s and utterly untruthful pei-sonalities : "He flies at our face with a degree of passion that blinds and exposes him," So, also, you accuse me of " haste and temper," of speaking " in the unthinkingness of my anger," of being " too hasty to be a consistent advocate of my own ca-ose," of being " agitated," " angry and impe- tuous."{' You abound in personalities, and compel me to " answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit," and yet you very absurdly talk of personali- ties as a reason for retiring from a controvei-sy which you yourself commenced. Already you feel your feebleness and defeat, and hang out signs of retreat, and show false colours. You doubtless think "discretion the better part of valour;" and, like Hudibras, you magniloquently talk of "dismiss- ing'" an opponent whom you have never admitted into your columns, except to garble and misrepresent him. 2. On the one hand, you say, " We are not wont to say, in his own idiom, that a gentleman talks unmitigated false- hood ;" in the other hand, you quote and endorse against me the expression, " a vile calumny," and denominate one of my charges " a foul calumny." There is this great dif- ference between us : you write thus of a Christian minister by name ; I write thus of an anonymous editor, whom I do not know to be a gentleman, or anything else respectable. You write falsely , I write truly and justly. III. Your Misrepresentations. 1. You say, I now " charge as a mutilation of the Report that it does not contain what it did not authorise." I say nothing so silly ; but I say, on the authority of an unim- peachable member of the ccmmittee, that the Report and Resolutions are a mutilated account of the decisions of the committee ; and that an appointment, which Connexionally originated with a Judicial Committee as a punishment, was hypocritically communicated to me, as a kindness from the Conference. In what way you will "take Dr. Beaumont's testimony" is of no consequence whatever, either to myself or to the public at large. It may be necessary to explain, once for all, that Dr. Beaumont was not the agent, attorney, or proxy of the memorialists, in any forensic sense, or in the sense of com- fact, or in the sense of formal appointment or acceptance, ut solely in the sense of receiving their papers and pro- moting their cause, in the spirit of brotherly kindness and Christian justice. Such a relation as this disqualified him in no degree whatever for voting. That this was his only rela- tion he himself avowed in the committee, in reply to Mr. JIason ; and though Mr. Samuel Jackson heard this avowal, he yet insinuatingly founds upon the disavowed sense an unwarrantable parallel between Dr. Beaumont and the Missionary Secretaries. Where are truth and fairness ? 2. I complained of the moral obliquity and lerversenes.^ of yourself and the "Vindicator," in endeavouring to con- vert my kindness and fidelity into a disparagement. Of your own conduct you attempt no dofonco ; out for your brother of the "Vindicator" you set up a disgraceful de- fence. Upwards of four years ago, and before the recent devolo{)inonts of modern Methodism, I vindicated, not "the system" of Methodism, much less the present system, as the " Vindicator" falsely declares,— but the Methodist Mis- sionaries, from the aspersions of a newspaper. I did it deliberately, but earnestly ; and because that newspaper accused me of vehemence, or something of the kinef the "Vindicator" refers to the matter with the obvious inton- V. Your Omissions an: ) Ev.vsiONS, 1. Neither you nor your : itting coadj tation and meanness, the " Vindicatorj to my exposure of the illcgi ility, injusti various acts of Conference ii i 1849 and s 2. The omissions in your Nos. 881 ai last week, are not supnlied. jn v our la^l points omitted are both nur orous and i 3. To most of mv charge? against yc ness, falsehood, and moral ("ibliquity, yo whatever. 4. You neither attempt to maintai nibbling theology, nor endeavour to re and arguments. Instead of grappling witli the great of my letters, you seize a few points f tion ; instead of fairly and logically coi garble, misrepresent, insinuate, and ( and unwarrantable innuendoes and chf motives and temper, you attempt t» dis] readers Your unworthy purpose will means you employ will serve only to i over in the estimation of every intelliger (To the Editor of the " Vindii Sir, — I have a few words for you, in ready bestowed on you, as an exposure i and Jesuitical artifices, misrepresentati of the 25th No. of your calumnious and tion. I shall not waste timo and space swers to what you merely echo, though . The chief use of this ruply is to put the \ against you. You say that " once a-yoar, at leasi my attachment to Wesleyan discipline." this is false. You say that my " case " has been "i and adjudged by the constitutional aut nexion." This, too, is utterly false. It impeached Missionary Secretaries that w adjudged. There has never been a case judicature, civil or ecclesiastical. You speak of my " claims now put f pathy and support." This also is false, or seeking any public support, but mer^ dependent testimony to the truth. Botl licly I have declared tha*-, I neither as thing. When you speak of my "diligence cause of Reform, and something mori tray, by such innuendo, meanness and you to declare your meaning. You say I am not likely " to inflict upon the sacred Missionary cause," "X seeking to inflict any such damage; r guarantees the absence of any wish co i can be more ungenerous and ignobla tl base insinuation. What you call an oath is simply a pr the words (to which you refer) in a lett founded or identified with the use ai in a court of justice. Stronger form to be found in the apostolical epistles, wl scarcely call swearing. You say I have come home in greai rave and swear. " Thou shalt not bear thy neighbour." You say the Minor District Meeting in terfered with by the authorities at ho: fered with by only four Missionary/ der out the knowledge or authority of the 1 tee, and concealed the whole business i from the committee, till the impeaching them to light. The interference of th process of clandestine and unrighteous as of gross misrepresentation and perve process has been eulogised by the Coi kind, and forbearing ! ! ! " You say "Mr. Manly protested to the ought to say that nine Jamaica Missionc Seoi-etarius by a memorial lo the Confere You say that I had " a difference v bunal," and carried my cause "to the This is sheer falsehood, I had no ditfei rior tribunal, for four Missionary clerks and it was not " my cause " that was car tribunal, but the cause of truth and cause of Wesleyan polity {r.nd law, whic most grossly and audaciously violated. You say that my cause is preoi If OUR Omissions an; ) Ev^vsions. either you nor your : itting coadjutor in miai-epreson- and meanness, the " Vindicator," attempts any reply exposure of the illc^i ility, injustice, and sinfulness of I acts of Conference ii i 1849 and siace. he omissions in your Nos. 881 and 882, which I noted ek, are not supplied, .jajp.ur Iftit Jaaufl. And vt^t t,hc) omitted are both nur erous and momentous. most of mv charge^ against you for artifice, unfair- daehood, and moral c^ibliquity, you attempt no defence er. ou neither attempt to maintain your maimed and g theology, nor endeavour to refute my distmctiona juments. lad of grappling with the great facts and arguments otters, you seize a few points for editorial expatia- nstead of fairly and logically considering those, you misrepresent, insinuate, and evade ; and, by false warrantable innuendoes and charges respecting my 3 and temper, you attempt t» disparage me with your 1 Your unworthy purpose will utterly fail, and the you employ will serve only to disgrace yourself for the estimation of every intelligent and upright mind. (To the Editor of tho " Vindic.itor.") -I have a few words for you, in addition to those nl- jestowed on you, as an exposure of the dishonourable isuitical artifices, misrepresentations, and falsehoods 15th No. of your caliimnioas and disgraceful publica- [ shall not waste tirao and space by repeating my an- what you merely echo, though I may Ixiofly note it. iof use of this ruply h to put the public ou tlioii guard you. say that " once a-yoar, at least, I formally avowed ichment to Wesleyan discipline." I have shown that false. say that my " case " has been "formally investigated udgod by the constitutional authorities of the Con- This, too, is utterly false. It was the case of tho hod Missionary Secretaries that was investigated and 3d. There has never been a case of mine before any are, civil or ecclesiastical. speak of my "claims now put forth for public sym- md support." This also is false, I am not claiming ing any public support, but merely delivering au in- ent testimony to the truth. Both privately and pub- have declared tha*-, I neither ask nor seek for auy- n you speak of my " diligence and alacrity in the )f Reform, and soniethiiuj more beside," you bo- y such innuendo, meanness and cowardice. I dare declare your meaning. say I am not likely " to inflict any serious damage lie sacred Missionary cause." You know I am not • to inflict any such damage; my whole character tees the absence of any wish co do so ; and nothing more ungenerous and ignobla than to deal in such sinuation. fc you call an oath is simply a prayer ; for my use of •ds (to which you refer) in a letter, is not to be con- 1 or identified with the use and import of them ourt of justice. Stronger forms of expression are und in the apostolical epistles, which even you would r call swearing. say I have come home in great wrath, and that I d swear, " Thou shalt not bear false witness a^'ainst ghbour." ° say the Minor District Meeting in Jamaica was " in- l with by the authorities at home." It was inter- ith by only four Missionary clerks, who acted with- knowledge or authority of the Missionary Commit- 1 concealed the whole business and correspondenofl e committee, till the impeaching memorial brough. ) light. Tho interference of the Secretaries was a of clandestine and unrighteous usurpation, as well ross mi.srepreaontation and perversion ; and yet this has beeu eulogised by the Conference as "wisa, nd forbearing ! ! ! " Jay "Mr. Manly protested to the Conference." You o say that nine Jamaica Missionaries impfjaohod the riys by a memorial lo the Conference, say that I had " a difference with an inferior tri- and carried my cause "to the supremo tribunal." sheer falsehood. I had no difference with any info- junal, for four Missionary clerks are not a tribunal ; vas not " my cause " that was carried to the supreme 1, but the cause of truth and righteousness, tho F Wesleyan polity p,nd law, which these clerks had ■ossly and audaciously violated. say that my cause is precisely such as that vou ought not to bo guilty of such a fabrication, ' You know that, instead of this, I declared, in my protest, that the proper course was to read tho memorial, and refer it, if necessary, to a committee ; and you know that what I pro- test against is not only tho non-perusal, but tho irrelevant and deceptive speeches of Messrs. Scott and Duncan, of brother 8 conduct, in the chair, in bringing the memorial before the Conference at the only time when Dr. Beaumont happened to be late in his attendance, and inallo^injra conversation depreciatory of Dr. Beaumont to take place in his absence. With tho applications of Messrs, Rowden and Mearns, for leave to return to England, I have nothing to do ; and what 1 said, in my own application, was perfectly explicit. Very artfully and unfairly you speak of New Brunswick and Canada as almost the same, though they are hundreds ot miles asunder, and the former is altogether a strange and to me; and of the " exile " as consisting in the pltwe to which I was appointed, instead of in the appointed re- moval, as a punishment, /rowt the land of my residence and labours. The material elemen'-s of the attempted degrada- tion you artfully conceal ; and you sophistically intimate a parallel between Dr. darkens voluntary avoidance of superintendence and the authoritative termination of my superintendence, without my knowledge or consent, and my decreed subordination to one nine years younger, in an unsmtable climate, to which the Conference had no right to appomt me, * You write as if my opposition to the conduct of tho Mis- sionary becretanes had arisen from pecuniary loss, when you know, or ought to know, that what [ protested against was not pecuniary loss, but the order for malappropriation of missionary money, and other acts of usurpation and injus- a\} have never been mulcted in any sum, great or small ; and though Mr, Edmondson did corrupt the District Meeting records, in accordance witL the instructions of the secreta- ries and his own wishes, and though tho Conference has sanctioned this corruption, yet, up to the time of my depar- ture from Jamaica, no attempt was made to execute the order of the secretaries for the malappropriation of money. What eight other missionaries and myself have resisted and prosecuted, you call "trifles." How blind and insen- sate must be the man, professing and preaching Christianity, and charged with important dutbs in a theological training school, who can call clandestine, untruthful, despotical, un- just, and hypocritical proceedings trifles, and can attempt to merge great principles in a question of mere pecuniary loss ! And how lamentable it is to see such a man conduct- ing a bitter and calumnious periodical, calling great ques- tions trifles, and yet talking about "moral and spiritual merits, and about others possessing " little of the spirit which cometh from above ! " " And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? The last of your falsehoods which I shall now expose, is your assertion that I omit to state that the secretaries did not vote. In my reply to tho decision on the memorial, are the following words:— "This shows clearly that the secretaries did everything, as members of the committee, except voting for the acquittal and eulogium of themselves." The secretaries * ♦ * magnanimously abstained from a formal vote. _ And yet you, the Rev. Samuel Jackson, Wesleyan minister, and house-governor in the Theological Institution, declare to the worid, as a piece of constitutional .^lethodism, that Mr, Manly " omits to state that they (the secretaries) did not vote," although I had stated it twice ' ' ' I leave yourself, your character, your cause, and your composition, to the impartial estimate of the churches and ot the public at large. Anything you can say, after your 25th number, is beneath contempt, I am, gentlemen of the Watchman s,x^d. the "Vindicator " yours, truly, jqhn G. Manly. ' 2, Alfred Cottages, North-end, Fulham, Doc. 8, 1851. P. S. The Watchman tauntingly attempts to disparage me on account of my honourable fidelity in drawing away none of the Jamaica Societies fro.'^. tho Connexion, Tho opposite of what the Watchman thus holds up as a reproach, the "Vindicator," in relation to Mr, Allison, describes as a orirnfi ' — ,'' Wfl ri>»A"i!*v»rt *Ko* ^^i^i- —^a-J — — 411 - - . ;■" ' ,' ■" ,^ — !'ii;iv odr icRuvin will agrco With ourselves that such conduct as this, on tho part of a missionary, would be much more accurately de- scribed as a disruption of the bonds of righteousness— a rejection of the obligations imposed, we will not say by religion merely, but by a sense of common honesty.'^' Which of these two semi-official organs is right in this opposition ? The one conserves and guards Methodism, the other vindicates Methodism. Of course, then, they must ba both right, on the principle—" You'll be condemned if you do, and you 11 be condemned if you don't." I