Wluitever reluctance or pain a benevolent heart may feel in recounting such tilings, wliich are, indeed a disgrace to humanity and religion, yet they ought to be held up to view, tlie more effectually to expose the baneful nature of persecution, make it detestable, and put mankind on tlieir guard against its first approaches. Were every instance of tliis kind faithfully collected, it is probable that the sufferings of tlie American clergy would appear, in many respects, not inferior to those of the English clergy in the great rebellion of last century; and such a work would be no bad supplement to " Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy."

The present rebellion is certainly one of the most causeless, unprovoked, and unnatural that ever disgraced any country ; a rebellion marked with peculiarly aggravated circumstances of guilt and ingratitude ; yet amidst this general defection, there are very many who have exhibited instances of fortitude and adherence to tlieir duty wliich do honour to human nature and Christianity ; many who, for the sake of a good conscience, have incurred insults, persecution, and loss of property, when a compliance with the spirit of the times had insured them applause, profit, and that eminence of which the liuman heart is naturally so fond. Perhaps sucii cases are the most trying to a man's fortitude, much more so, in my opinion, than those wliich are sudden, and where danger, though more apparent, yet is not more certain or real, The one is like a weight indesinently pressing on us, which wastes and consumes our strength ; the other, like a transient impulse, which, by sudden exertion of strength, may be resisted. It is but justice to say tliat those instances were exhibited by the members of our Church : there is not one of the clergy in the provinces I have specified, of whom this may not be affirmed ; and very few of tlie laity who were respectable or men of property, have joined in the rebellion,