The Presbyterians were by no means satisfied with the reward their loyalty had received. Especially did the "rascally" missionaries of the western frontiers feel themselves abused. Petitions protesting in strong terms against the act were presented by the clergy. Those of Mecklenburg, for instance, regard themselves as "highly injured and aggrieved" by the statute, "the preamble whereof scandalizes the Presbyterian clergy."[782] The petitioners of Tryon county say they are "much aggrieved," the law depriving them of a privilege "which a million of our fellow-professors in America now enjoy ... neither was it ever taken from Dissenters in America until it was taken from us by this act."[783] The "manly protest from the inhabitants of Orange and Rowan claims that the right of 'dissenting ministers' to perform the marriage ceremony after their own fashion was a 'priviledge they were debarred of in no other part of his majesty's Dominions; and as we humbly conceive, a priviledge they stand entitled to, by the Act of Toleration, and in fine, a priviledge granted even to the very Catholics in Ireland and the Protestants in France.'"[784] [Footnote 782: See the petition for repeal _ibid._, X, 1015; _cf._ WEEKS, _op. cit._, 246, 247, who has collected these passages.] [Footnote 783: _N. C. Col. Rec._, VIII, 80_b_. There was also a petition from the people of Anson: _ibid._, 78.] [Footnote 784: _Ibid._, 82; WEEKS, _op. cit._, 246, 247. This petition was presented to Tryon by "Herman Husband the leader of the Regulators": WEEKS, _op. cit._, 247, 248, referring to SWAIN, "War of Regulation," _N. C. University Mag._, IX (1859-60), 339.]