Excerpt from A History of the Rise, Progress, Genius, and Character of American Presbyterianism: Together With a Review of "the Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, by Chas. Hodge, D.D. Professor in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N. J." Thing that could be said against the grounds I meant to take, I came home and published in the Southern Religious Telegraph a. Few hasty Sketches, to elicit what might be said in opposition to what I thought was the truth 1n the case. The publication of these hasty and superficial papers excited more attention and awakened more interest than I anticipated. The anxiety with which they were sought after, plainly showed that they communicated infor mation and made disclosures that were much needed, and by them many of our best informed Ministers were brought to see how little they knew before of the rise and progress of our beloved church, which induced them ardently to desire still further information upon that subject; and hence, desires add importunities from va rions and distant quarters have been sent to me ever since to prose cute this work still further. But while my Sketches afforded plea sure to many, they awakened apprehensions and enkindled opposi tion, in these times of party collision, to a degree which was little expected. My opinions upon American Presbyterianism having been formed before party strife had done such mischief among us, my statements were made entirely irrespective of these evil times on which we have fallen. The application I made to my venerable.

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