Page:Correspondence between the Warden of St Columba's College and the Primate of Armagh.djvu/6

 attract particular observations, and the more so, on account of the responsible office which you fill. In my endeavours to establish and to maintain the College of S. Columba, I have had serious difficulties from without to contend against; and in the internal management of its concerns, untoward circumstances have arisen which have caused me much trouble and anxiety. Of these annoyances I have never complained. I have always looked with hopefulness to the establishment of this College as a means, under the Divine blessing, of effecting an improvement in the system of classical education in this country. But when it now appears before the public that the Warden takes a lead in a fresh agitation of the English Church, and prominently unites himself with those who are well known to be persons of ultra opinions on ecclesiastical affairs, I am not aware of any mode but one by which I can free the College from the imputation of being an institution in which the views of this section of the Church are inculcated,—views which, for my own part, I disapprove of, and which, therefore, I cannot allow it to be supposed that I lend any assistance in propagating. I feel, then, that under these circumstances your continuing to preside over the College could not conduce to its interests; and as you intimated to me, on your being appointed to the office of Warden, that you would not hold the situation except with my full approval of your course of proceeding, I deem it due to myself, to you, and to the College, to say,