MR. LEATHAM ON DISESTABLISHMENT.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1
SIR,—In the course of some remarks which you did me the honour to make in your last issue, upon a short speech of mine which was delivered at Huddersfield, you also did me an injustice which I am quite sure was unintentional, but against which,. nevertheless, I must protest. Professing to give my sentiments,. you say, "A Dissenter who votes down denominational education is a religious politician, but a Churchman who votes it up is a. bigot, or if he has been a Quaker a renegade, while a Roman. Catholic who does so is a. superstitious fool." I must take exception to the last three propositions entirely. I have never in my life called Roman Catholics "superstitious fools," or indeed attacked them in any way whatever ; nor have I ever spoken of Mr. Forster as a "renegade," or applied the term "bigot" to any Churchman who was a conscientious supporter of denomi-- [Mr. Leathern, for an epigram-maker, is strangely literal. We never professed to give his words, but only to express very briefly the line we should, from his usual attitude, expect him to take,- ED. Spectator.]
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