not required to take an oath of allegiance. But in special cases, such requisition has been deemed essential for public safety. A minister of the Gospel, above all other men, should so conduct, that he cannot even be suspected of being disloyal to the Government which protects him. And we venture to say, that there has been no case of arrest, or infringement, or threatening of any one's liberty or safety, in the loyal States, concerning whom there was not some good ground for the suspicion, at least, that he was in some way aiding the rebellion. But the simple fact that Dr. Robinson's friends thought, and his judgment and conscience approved the suggestion, that Canada was a safer place for him than Kentucky, is prima facie evidence that the case is against him; that his presence and influence in Louisville were deemed to be against the Government by the military authorities, and that it would be improper for him to return there without taking the oath of allegiance; all which is strengthened by the consideration that the Cominander of that Military Department at the time was Dr. Robinson's particular friend, and would do him no injustice.

HE EDITS A DISLOYAL PAPER.

Our object in referring to this case at all, is, that it furnishes a striking illustration of disloyalty to the Government, and sympathy with the rebellion, in a leading minister of a Border State, which, by successive votes of its people at the polls, has determined to stand by the Government and the Union. We need not go for proof to what he did, immediately leading to his exile. Ever since he has been in Canada, he has edited a paper, which is issued in Louisville, and widely circulated in Kentucky, from which the proof of his disloyalty and sympathy with treason and rebellion is patent to all who read the sheet.

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This paper is called The True Presbyterian. It was published for some time before Dr. Robinson left Kentucky, and edited by him, and was at one time suspended by military authority; and afterwards, through the interference of a friend, the resumption of its publication was allowed. During the last year or more, its disloyal utter- i ances have been more outspoken than usual, though from first to last its whole tone and spirit have been pervaded with hostility to the course of the Government and sympathy with the rebellion. Its articles are spiced with a venom which is scarcely rivalled by the secular prints of Richmond.

The animating spirit of the paper is Dr. Robinson, safely housed in Toronto under the protection of the British flag, while the paper emanates from Louisville, protected in its treasonable influence by the flag of the United States. We have not the least doubt that The True Presbyterian is one of the most powerful auxiliaries for keeping alive the spirit of the rebellion among the secessionists of Kentucky.

In saying that this is a disloyal sheet, we do not speak at random; we shall give the proof. For the responsibility of its influence, its editors, publishers, correspondents, subscribers, and patrons, must be held to account, on any correct principles of judgment; though, as we have said, Dr. Robinson is the soul of the concern. For our individual self, as we have taken this paper from the beginning, our conscience is vindicated on the same ground that the late Dr. Emmons justified himself for purchasing infidel books. He said his library contained "the best and worst books in the world:" that it was necessary for a minister to consult infidel works such as he would not recommend to his people, for "they should know what the Devil is about." On the same principle, in this time of

rebellion, we by no means confine our reading to one side of the question, either in secular or religious literature. We consult papers and books of all parties, and especially those which claim to be of the "religious" sort. For this purpose we have taken, as long as the mails were open, several of the religious papers and periodicals of the South. On the same principle, if his Satanic Majesty should escape to the earth, and set up a religious or secular journal in some metropolis of our country, we should become one of his subscribers. But we seriously doubt whether he could carry out his designs more effectually through such means than they are now being executed by some of the servants he employs; of which The True Presbyterian is a fair specimen of the "religious" press, and indeed the only paper of any denomination that we know of in all the loyal States that is not openly and decidedly sustaining the Government in its efforts to put down the rebellion.

ITS DISLOYAL COURSE IN GENERAL.

We do not intend to wade through the entire files of this paper for our proofs, but will take a single number of a recent date as a sample of many more.

Before quoting it, however, we will simply note the leading characteristics of the disloyalty which runs. through this paper, from the first number to the last, as must be well known to every loyal person who reads it.

It started out on the avowed principle that it was going to maintain a high tone of spirituality; that the necessity for this arose from the fact that the religious papers of the country had become secularized and political,-the best illustrations for which were, that they spoke out boldly in opposition to the rebellion, and in support of the Govern ment and the war for its suppression,-and that the

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Churches of all denominations had become openly corrupt and utterly apostate, as seen in their resolutions and acts adopted in support of the Government. In this extraordinary state of religious degeneracy, The True Presbyterian was going to be strictly and purely "religious," would abjure and eschew "politics" altogether, and set a high example of what a religious journal should be. The mask was soon thrown off. It is, and has been from its first number, for a paper claiming to be "religious," one of the most intensely political journals in the country; and its politics are disloyal and treasonable in their spirit, tendencies, terms, and intent.

IT VILIFIES THE CHURCH FOR LOYALTY.

There is not a branch of the Church which has passed resolutions in support of the Government which it has not denounced and maligned in the most bitter and vile terms. There is no body of religionists in any part of the loyal States which has manifested disfavor with the Government and sympathy with the rebellion, which it has not held up for approbation; as, for example, that of a Methodist congregation in the interior of Pennsylvania, which recently passed resolutions against the loyal action of the General Conference of that large and influential Church in May last in Philadelphia, and that of a Methodist Convention held in Louisville, which took action against the proceedings of the Bishops of that Church. There is not a distinguished man in the Church who has shown his loyalty in his writings, nor a periodical that has taken the same course, especially those in the Presbyterian branch, -that has not been blackballed by that sheet by name, in terms that would eclipse a London Fish Market; embracing such venerable names as Drs. Hodge, Spring, Breckinridge, Junkin, Musgrave, and hosts of others, including all the

editors of the religious press; and not a prominent man in the Church sympathizing with treason, nor an insignificant one of that character, has escaped its commendations. On the other hand, while it has often been very earnest in its exhortations for "peace," and has continually denounced and mourned over "this cruel war against our SOUTHERN brethren," a war begun by themselves for the destruction of our nationality, and while the ministers of the Southern Church of all branches have been the foremost in urging on the war against the National Government, the Constitution, and the Union, and many of the more prominent of them have held commissions as officers and have fought in the rebel army, no article has ever appeared in that paper whose object was to condemn the wickedness of this pious work of "our Southern brethren," but many paragraphs are found in its columns extenuating their course, which were well calculated and directly designed to give them substantial "aid and comfort;" while, also, some of these leading men have been especially commended by name for their exalted virtues, and held up as models worthy of imitation by all men. It sometimes waxes very warm upon the question of Northern infraction of "Constitutional rights," but this paper may be searched throughout for a single condemnation of the infractions of the Constitution by treason and rebellion which Southern men have committed, and not one such line of condemnation can be found.

IT ABUSES THE GOVERNMENT.

In regard to the General Government, whose flag protects the property of The True Presbyterian,-and under whose jurisdiction the "unclean spirit" of the paper, "walking through dry places, seeking rest," does not find it well to reside,—its course is very similar to that towards the loyal action and loyal men of the Church. There is