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 A L E T T E E 
 
 TO THE RIGHT REVEREND 
 
 I'^KANCIS FULFORD, D.D., 
 
 LORD BISHOP OP MONTREAL AND METROPOLITAN. 
 
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 BY ADAM CROOKS. 
 
 TORONTO : 
 PRKNTED AT THE GLOBE OFFICE, 26 KING <sTREET WEST. 
 
 1862. 
 
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Toronto, September Ist, 1862. 
 My Lord Bishop, 
 
 Other avocations prevented my noticing; earlier the statements 
 which appear in the tidrd letter, a short time since issued by you to 
 your Bishops and Clergy, and publicly circulated. 
 
 These, as well as all your Lordship's statements in connection with 
 General Evans' proposition about the Sherbrook-street Church, carry 
 with them their own refutation, and any further notice of them would 
 be quite unnecessary, if they had not emanated from a person who 
 occupies the high position in the Church of England of Lord Bishop 
 of the Diocese of Montreal and Metropolitan. 
 
 That position necessarily carries with it a large amount of influ- 
 ence, both social, with the clergy, and in the community at large. — 
 The mere fact that a charge has come from your Lordship would 
 tiXmost prinm fade support its correctness. No one who is affected 
 by such a charge, can possibly treat it with the silent contempt it 
 would have merited, and would have received so far as the General's 
 family is concerned, if it had originated from a less influential source. 
 
 But if because your Lordship is the author of the charge, and the 
 arraigner and accuser before the bar of public opinion, of General 
 Evans and Archdeacon Hellmuth, in their joint conspiracy to entrap 
 you, it is necessary not to pass over such a charges in silence, but to 
 offer a complete vindication : and if such a vindication is considered 
 complete and satisfactory by the public : your Lordship's position 
 before the community will be the more humiliating, as the necessity 
 was the greater for entering upon such a vindication. 
 
 I am conscious, however, that while I attempt this, and will secure 
 the judgment of every unprejudiced person, who may trouble himself 
 to understand the questions that have been raised, it will be impos- 
 sible to entirely overcome the influence of your position in the Church ; 
 and I may possibly be subjected to similar letters of the coarse and 
 ungentlemanly character of those which have fallen from some clergy- 
 men in their attempts to assist your Lordship, in your contest with 
 Archdeacon Hellmuth. 
 
 In my letter of the 17th of May last, I took occasion to remonstrate 
 
against the personal attack made by you upon General Evans, in you 
 Pastoral of the 28th of April, 1862, addressed to your Bishops and 
 Clergy, and which, in a note appended to it, was announced for sale 
 for five cents, at the bookseller's shop in Montreal. 
 
 In that Pastoral, you characterized the liberal proposition of Qen- 
 eral Evans, for the building of a Church on Sherbrook-street in Mon- 
 treal, as a " manoeuvre," " a project for the benefit of General Evans' 
 land" — that '' you found the whole business was an attempt to take 
 you in." 
 
 As soon as I read these statements, and learned from Mrs. Crooks, 
 (who had heard of the whole matter at the time from her father, ) the 
 true nature of the proposition that was made you, I at once addressed 
 you on the subject. In my letter I stated, I trust in sufficiently plain 
 language, the essential terms of the offer that was made you, and 
 which, in themselves, per se, wore utterly irreconcilable with the dis- 
 creditable inference drawn by your Lordship, and, on the contrary, 
 demanded commendation, instead of condemnation and injurious 
 epithets from your Lordship. I expressed my belief, that carried 
 away by animosity to the Archdeacon, you had not considered the 
 disgraceful reflection you were casting upon an aged and distinguished 
 General officer, and I left your Lordship a locus pcenitentice, or an 
 opportunity of making the amende, which could not otherwise have 
 been becoming to a gentleman, and one occupying the position of 
 Primate of the Church of England and Ireland in Canada. I took 
 care not to interfere in the least with so much of your Pastoral as 
 concerned the Archdeacon of Huron, while at the same time I felt 
 confident that one of his long tried services in the cause of the Church, 
 would convincingly and triumphantly clear himself of all of your 
 accusations ; and that he would emerge out of the fiery ordeal to 
 which your Lordship had subjected him with a character untarnished. 
 In this confident hope I have not been disappointed ; and the verdict 
 rendered on all sides, both in England and America, has shown how 
 groundless were your charges against the Archdeacon. 
 
 In replying to my letter of the 17th of May, your Lordship did 
 me the honour to acknowledge it, and to say, that it was natural and 
 reasonable for me to be deeply interested in whatever affected General 
 Evans in any way — that you had no hesitation in saying, that you 
 exceedingly regretted if anything said by you in your letter had given 
 pain to me, or any of those connected with him ; you stated that you 
 
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 had no intention or wish to apply the words quoted hy mo to the 
 General, and only introduced his name hs being necessary to explain 
 the nature of the application to you ; at the same time, however, you 
 " moat distinctly denied the correctness of my vers'on of the matter," 
 and expressed your readiness at all times to niain.ain the facts as 
 stated by you. 
 
 My disposition is such^ that I shrink from obtruding myself unne- 
 cessarily ufon the public, and it was only from a sense of duty that I 
 undertook to publicly resent the charges so publicly n»ado by your 
 Lordship. I felt that however puerile these were in themselves, yet 
 your Lordship's position gave a semblance of weight to them, which 
 intrinsically they did not possess. I was quite willing, therefore, to 
 let the matter rest where it had been placed ; and the more so, as 
 many churchmen who differ in their theology from Archdeacon Hell- 
 muth, and apparently coincide with your views, expressed their regret 
 that your Lordship should have made so grave a mistake, as upon 
 your mere suspicions, and after the lapse of so many years, to have 
 branded a General Officer and a Dignitary of the Church with the 
 imputation of attempting to take you in, in connection with a trans- 
 action which, by your own statement, was quite free from so unwar- 
 rantable an inference. 
 
 I felt, besides, that it was highly detrimental to the interests of your 
 Church, which ought to do so much for our common Protestant cause 
 in this country, that further prominence should be given to this 
 unhappy error of your Lordship. 
 
 I had some hope that after Dr. Hellmuth, in a courteous and 
 ohristian-like spirit, had explained the scope of his remarks before an 
 assembly of Evangelical Clergymen at Islington, and that he never 
 intended any attack, much less violent attacks, as your Lordship 
 terms them in your letter to me, upon the Canadian Church and 
 Canadian Institutions, your Lordship would have allowed the subject 
 to have dropped, and, perhaps, even expressed some satisfaction with 
 those explanations. 
 
 Your Lordship has not thought fit to adopt this course, and I regret 
 to say, that the animus, or odium, if I may be pardoned the expres- 
 sion, which 'prompted the issue of your first Pastoral, seems not to 
 have been the least abated. We find it running through a second 
 Pastoral issued by your Lordship ; and in. the third, recently issued, 
 it even becomes stronger. In connection with this proposal about 
 
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 building the Church, in this third letter wo are favoured with such 
 expressioHH as these: — " a total misrepresentation of the facts in the 
 Archdeacon's first letter, which, however, he has still further over- 
 done in his second." " There is not one word of truth in the state- 
 ment'' of General Evans about the two interviews, evening and morn- 
 ing, on the subject of the Church, and, that these cirounistancs are 
 " an entire invention." 
 
 Behind the backs — (this is the only expression applicable, and I 
 must therefore use it) — of the General and Dr. Hellnmth, wo find 
 your Lordship using the following defamatory language to the Bishop 
 of Huron : — 
 
 He, (your Lordship,) then proceeded to state the circum- 
 stances concerning the offer which General Evans hail made to 
 him through Dr. Hellmuth, of a site for a Church in Montreal, and of 
 £3,000 to build it ; and he concluded by saying, that he had seen 
 through the trap which was thus laid fir him, and discovered that 
 General Evans and Dr. Hellmuth had CONSPIRED to obtain from 
 him his consent to a measure whxh was only intended to enhance the 
 value of General Evans' property, and to obtain a ChurcJi in the city 
 for his son-in-law ; hut which would, in the end, prove highly inju- 
 rious to the Church, 
 
 I am also given to understand that your Lordship continues to 
 make this a topic of conversation in Montreal, with comments inju- 
 rious to the fair names of the parties concerned in it. 
 
 General Evans and his family are not prepared to submit to the 
 usurped authority of your Lordship, in thus stigmatizing, from your 
 Metropolitan Throne, the action of a private individual, which was 
 alike creditable to his liberality, and, if accepted, of benefit to the 
 Protestant community of Montreal. 
 
 Major Evans, of the 16th Regiment, in June last, wrote to your 
 Lordship, requesting you to deny the imputation as publicly as your 
 Lordship had made it, and that otherwise proper steps would be taken 
 to preserve his father's character from being injured by your attack. 
 To that letter you vouchsafed no reply. 
 
 I am therefore directed by the General, and all the members of his 
 family from whom we have heard, to demand from your Lordship an 
 unequivocal and absolute withdrawal of the charge and injurious 
 statements we complain of. If you should decline to give this, then 
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 Lest such a demand should be thought unreasonable, I will point 
 out what appears to mo some satisfactory reasons for/c(j[uiriug it, and 
 they are the following : — 
 
 I. The introduction of General Evans' namt could only have been 
 justiticd by the necessity of the thing ; and this involves, firstly, the 
 necessity of writing the Pastoral against Archdeacon Hellmuth at all, 
 an I secondly, the necessity of referring to this Church affair as a jus- 
 tification for such a course. As to the first, you say in your letter 
 to me, that " The Archdeacon's violent attacks upon the Canadian 
 Church and Canadian Institutions, rendered your interference neces- 
 sary." Now that this point has been cleared up by three Pastorals 
 from your Lordship, and three replies from the Archdeacon, it is 
 manifest that Dr. HoUmuth made no attack upon the Canadian 
 Church and Canadian Institutions — that your Lordship, with a view 
 manifestly to prejudice Dr. Hellmuth in the estimation of the 
 Clergy and Churchmen of the Province, tortured his remarks at 
 Islington into a sweeping attack of this kind, instead of accepting 
 his explanations of their purport : that his remarks had reference 
 to Trinity College, and to Evangelical men as such ; that Dr. 
 Hellmuth's previous labours on behalf of Lennoxville and Sabreovis 
 Colleges would necessarily show that he could only have referred to 
 the one Institution of Trinity College, which, by the way, is more 
 properly a Church Institution than a Canadian one, as this term is 
 only strictly applicable to the Provincial University ; that you 
 understood the sense in which Dr. Hellmuth used the term Evan- 
 gelical; that, if there were any doubt, you had Dr. Hellmuth's 
 explanation to this effect in his reply to Presbyter, to which he 
 referred you ; that notwithstanding the non-necessity therefore of 
 any interference on your part, you did interfere, and, I am afraid, 
 your warmest friend cannot say successfully. 
 
 As to the second point. The necessity of introducing this Church 
 proposition at all into the discussion, seems also against your Lord" 
 ship. Di". Hellmuth testifies, as he avows, to two or possibly to 
 thrta facts, viz. : That the teaching of Trinity College was dangerous 
 from its Tractarianism, or " unsafe approximation to Rome ;" that 
 Evangelical men, as such, were few, and were not generally encour- 
 aged; and, lastly, (which was, perhaps, the true cause of your 
 
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 Lordship'H fuliuinatiuns,) that uttcmpts wcro being niado in Canada 
 to rour up u Ilicrurchicul Hiructuro, which, in hir4 opinion, would bo 
 hi<;hly injurious to tho Church. To Hhow that his testimony on 
 thcHO points is not roliublo, you would throw discredit on tho 
 character of tho witness. But bctbro resorting to so (|ucstionuble 
 and generally so unsuccessful a step, and which, when the character 
 and standing of another clergyman holding u high office in another 
 diocese is concerned — should not have been entered upon without 
 grave consideration — it is to bo expected, nay, it is demanded from 
 your Lordship, that your Lordship would first have been prepared 
 to have asserted the contrary, and to have denied tho truth of those 
 statements before beginning to impugn the personal character of tho 
 witness to them. Instead of this, however, wo find your Lordship 
 substantially admits that Dr. Hellmuth's statements us to Evan- 
 gelical men is correct, — that you arc not in a condition to pronounce 
 upon tht Trinity College controversy ; and, thirdly, tho creation of 
 a Metropolitan is necessarily going far in the erection of a hierarchical 
 structure, if it is not to be considered tho topmost stone thereof; 
 and that such is likely to be injurious to the Church cannot but be 
 the opinion of many, without the additional light derived from this 
 present controversy. 
 
 No justification is, therefore, to be found for your Lordship's 
 course, based upon any alleged necessity. ' ' 
 
 II. There is nothing in the story as told by your Lordship your- 
 self. Before any story is to be credited, one has to make proper 
 allowances for the circumstances under which it is first given to the 
 public. To weigh it properly (if such precision may be excused), 
 we are to consider : 
 
 1. The person narrating it, and how affected towards the person 
 to whose prejudice it is narrated. 
 
 2. The person so sought to be prejudiced. ' ' ' ' 
 
 ■ 3. The object sought by the narration of it. • -• ^' ; , 
 
 4. The mode or manner of the narration. ' ' . ' * 
 
 5. The narration itself. 'i* - « ' - •, 
 
 6. When narrated for the first time. 
 
 7. Conduct inconsistent with the belief of the narrator himself. 
 
 The narrator of the present story is your Lordship ; and, there- 
 fore, as I have said, prima facie, there may be some credibility 
 about it ; but we find that, before your elevation to the Episcopate, 
 
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 jou looked upon tho person whom you seek to alfcot as a rival, and 
 rushed to the Colonial Secretary (forgetful for the moment of the 
 nolo epUcopari) to ascertain the truth of the rumor of his appoint- 
 ment to the See of Montreal ; and that, from almost the time of 
 your advent to this country to the present, Dr. Hellmuth has found 
 no favor in your eyes. You are, therefore, manifestly prejudiced, 
 and your statements are to be received with great caution. 
 
 Your story would affect General Evans and Archdeacon Hellmuth 
 equally. If you will refer to Hart's Army List, you will find a short 
 statement of General Evans' long services, and that he is now within 
 less than twenty of being the oldest General Officer in the service. 
 Dr. Hellmuth, as you are well aware, has been distinguished since 
 he entered Lonnoxvillo College for unceasing devotion and labors 
 in the cause of your Church; that the Bishop of Quebec, with 
 whom he formally co-operated, bears unequivocal testimony to this ; 
 that he has occupied various responsible positions in the Church, 
 and that recently he has been selected by tho Bishop of Huron as 
 one of his Archdeacons and as bis Commissary to England. Prima 
 facie, then, no one, I may properly infer, would believe any story 
 which could impute a discreditable action to either General Evans 
 or Dr. Hellmuth, much more that both should unite in it. 
 
 The object you seek to accomplish is to damage the character of 
 one person, at least, against whom you are prejudiced, and hence we 
 cannot expect much caution or charitableness, but, on the contrary, 
 exaggerated and highly-coloured statements that the object may not 
 fail to be attained The statements, again, are not plain and 
 straightforward, but abound in insinuations, and therefore the more 
 difficult to fasten upon the narrator the charg' f falsity. 
 
 The proposition that caused such unfavour; Me impressions upon 
 your Lordship — as your Lordship actually states it — was an exceed- 
 ingly liberal one, and beneficial to the Church at least ; I am not 
 sufficiently enlightened to see that it was otherwise ; but injurious or 
 not injurious to the Church, your Lordship admits that it was Dr. 
 Hellmuth himself who informed your Lordship of the whole propo- 
 sition, and that before you pronounced your decision. Whether 
 there was haste or not in the transaction, that is immaterial, as no 
 advantage was intended or taken by the parties, as your Lordship's 
 own version of the affiiir allows me to infer. 
 
 Your Lordship first tells this story to the Bishop of Huron with 
 
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 the evident design of shaklnnr the confidence of the Bishop in his 
 Archdeacon, behind his back, (as you were in hopes you had done it 
 with the Bishop of Quebec by similar means.) The taking advant- 
 age of such an opportunity was quite unfair, and entirely opposed to 
 ?ll gentlemanly feeling. I speak plainly. Your Lordi^hip fails with 
 the Bishop of Huron — the poison cannot be distilled into his ear ; 
 and, feeling no doubt that, upon Dr. Hellmuth's return to this 
 country you would be called to a proper account, you anticipate it, 
 and issue your first Pasicral, as it appears clear to me fr» obtain some 
 justification for these slanders to the Bishop of Huron, and to 
 escape from them, and not for the ostensible reasons put forth by 
 your Lordship, of taking the Archdeacon to task for his so-called 
 attacks on the Church. The prominence you have given to this 
 Church episode is an additional reason for drawing such an inference. 
 If you believed this story, or gave much weight to it, I would 
 have naturally looked to some earlier publication o it, and then the 
 Bishops of Quebec and Huron, and the Colonial and Continental 
 Church Society would not have been placed in the false position of 
 honoring the clergyman whom you now defame to them. But your 
 Lordship's conduct is inconsistent with such a belief; for when it 
 was in your power to have refused to be a party in honoring and 
 appointing Dr. Hellmuth to different responsible ofl&ces in connec- 
 tion with the Church, we find you on several occasions joining in 
 this, and on one expressing yourself " that it was with much 
 pleasure." 
 
 III. There is no variance between your Lordship's stat^ement of the 
 proposition as made to jou by O^eneral Evans, or your understand- 
 ing of it, and that stated by General Evant. and Dr. Hellmuth. 
 After your positive assertion in your letter of the 21st May last to 
 me, in which you say " I beg most distinctly to deny the correctness 
 of your version of the matter," I was certainly not prepared to find 
 that your Lordship's letter would result in placing all the different 
 statements as to the nature of the proposition made in perfect 
 accord, and that the only point now open is whether you had an 
 evening as well as a morning interview with General Evans on the 
 subject. Whether there were two or more interviews, or only one, it 
 can make no material difference. Did you not understand the pro- 
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 necessary to determine that j»oint, there are three witnesses, and I 
 will venture to call them credible, and I may mention another, 
 Mr. Charles Ogdnn, against your Lordship's memory, more or les3 
 retentive, and a diary more or loss accurate. 
 
 IV. Your Lordship has beeji the aggressor in this personal contest, 
 and you have clearly failed to substantiate your charge. 
 
 TLo charge complained of is so gross that your Lordship has 
 given occasion to the editor of a New York Church newspaper '' to 
 blush for his Anglo-Saxon relations,'' and to an English Church 
 paper " to ascribe such personalities as your Lordship has indulged in 
 to the bi'ckwood's character of Canada." 
 
 It is an Englishman, and not one educated in the country, who 
 has given rise to these taunts, and, having been subjected to such, 
 " Canadian Institutions," can scarcely thank your Lordship for 
 your interferencj. 
 
 For these reasons, which I have as briefly as possible stated, I 
 require, on General Evans' behalf, the unequivocal withdrawal of all 
 of your Lordship's charges against him, and that you will desist 
 from any reiteration of them. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 ADAM CROOKS. 
 
 To the llight Reverend 
 
 Francis FuLFORD, D. I)., 
 
 Lord Bishop of Montreal and Metro}>olitan. 
 
 
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