In your address to "Methodist Know-Nothing Preachers," I discover that you are still the man you were at Madison, in 1847: you have a great deal to say about _yourself_, and make free use of the personal pronoun I! _I_ advise--_I_ believe--_I_ am satisfied--_I_ will not agree--_I_ warn and caution--_I_ fear, or _I_ apprehend, etc. To parse the different sentences in your partisan harangue syntactically, little else is necessary but to understand the _first person singular_, and to repeat the rule as often as it occurs: a peculiarity which characterizes every paragraph in your labored address. Beside, the frequent use of the pronouns _I_, _me_, _my_, _mine_, etc., too frequently occur to be worth estimating. And it will be seen, upon examination, that not merely the verbiage, but the sentiment, is thus egotistic throughout, exhibiting a degree of arrogance and self-importance, only to be met with in a _Clerical Locofoco_, used by bad men for ignoble purposes. To carry out the idea of your _vanity_, you say in the winding up of your address: "And now, brethren, have _I_ or Mr. Wesley hit upon one good reason why you should not have joined the Know-Nothings? If either of _us_ have, then _I_ beseech you to come from among them. If _we_ have not, there is yet another in reserve which, if it does not prevail will show--or prove to my satisfaction at least--that if _an angel from heaven_ were to denounce your order, you would cleave to it still." Any other man but yourself would, from considerations of _modesty_, have given JOHN WESLEY the preference, in this connection, and come in as _second best_. But no, you are _first in place_, and, in your own estimation, in _importance_ likewise, as a religious teacher. I have no doubt you consider yourself a much greater man than John Wesley ever was; and in proof of this, I need only cite what you have said in reference to Mr. Wesley's opposition to Romanism: "Even good old John Wesley caught the spirit of the times, and wrote that letter, from which it appears he thought if the Catholics got into power, they would abuse Protestants. What abuse they could have heaped on them, greater than they heaped on Catholics, short of cutting their throats, I cannot conceive." The only superior you acknowledge is CARDINAL WISEMAN, a bigoted Roman Catholic, and you seem to knock under to him quite reluctantly, and not without informing the public that you have been a laborious student for forty years, and "_a profound thinker_." Here is your praise: "I have been a pretty severe student for near forty years, and a laborious, if not _profound thinker_ for a long time; but when I compare myself in intellectual stature with that man, I shrink in my own estimation to the insignificance of a mite."