This term a weekly production called “Westminster Truth” was started by certain OWW, who established agents & a treasurer in the School. The somewhat singular object was to assist the “Elizabethan” with any profit that might accrue, the latter organ being very much in debt. The tone of “Westminster’s truth” rapidly passed from the harmlessly uninteresting to the vulgar & aggressive. The editors were unfortunately induced to insert a very ill-judged, one-sided & senseless spite from Sir P. Colquhoun denouncing the School Mission, to which he had from the first been avowedly opposed.
Rutherford was naturally indignant & finding that the editor was an OW, refused to allow the paper to continue unless it had an editor in the school, & the proofs were submitted to him (Rutherford). At this juncture a rupture occurred between the members of the staff- an editor was with difficulty found; but the matter of the paper increased in vulgarity so rapidly that he soon declined to have anything to do with it. The proprietors at length saw that the paper could not go on; & we are presently expecting the last number!
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