200 EDITOR. 



Representatives, advocated a wise and liberal policy, 

 based on the necessity of educating the Negroes in the 

 duties of free men and elevating them to the level of the 

 whites, and died in three years. 



Before the arrival of Finlay, Miller wrote to Mr 

 Dunlop, in answer to a request from that gentleman to 

 furnish a prospectus for the paper to be started in Edin- 

 burgh. The letter consists mainly of despondent expres- 

 sions as to the risk run by the writer in undertaking the 

 editorship. His situation in Cromarty is, at least, he 

 represents, a certainty, a permanent certainty, and he re- 

 quests information as to what he may expect in the event 

 of the paper proving a complete failure. 



Mr Dunlop replied to this letter with assurances 

 fitted to dispel the apprehensions of his correspondent, 

 at least on the head of pecuniary venture. ' We shall 

 in the first place require security for your salary in all 

 events for three years, so that, whether the plan succeeds 

 or not, you will have some time to look round for an- 

 other situation. Then, assuming it to fail, although I 

 could not point out anything so definite as you might 

 wish, yet I can scarcely conceive the possibility of our 

 not being able to procure for you a situation equal at 

 least to what you possess/ For the rest, he encourages 

 Miller to ' summon courage to make an advance/ and 

 concludes in these brave words : ' I do believe that 

 when a man has an opening through which to do essen- 

 tial service to the cause of religion and his country, he 

 may very generally enter with confidence that he will 

 not be a loser/ 



Mr Dunlop enclosed certain resolutions, adopted at 

 a meeting of the promoters of the forthcoming news- 

 paper, and embodying the ' leading principles ' which it 

 was to represent and advocate. It was to be in the 



