The certificate further states that "a large portion of the community were more intent on giving presbyterianism a blow than on investigating, or leaving the law to investigate, the question of Mrs. Packard's insanity."
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
There he succeeded in securing a place as stated supply, by ignoring the decision of your court, and by misrepresenting the west to be in such a semi-barbarous state that it was impossible to get a just decision at any legal tribunal in this uncivilized region, where, he tells them, "a large portion of community were more intent on giving presbyterianism a blow, than in investigating the question of Mrs. Packard's insanity!"
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
20, 21 presbyterianism in England under Elizabeth, iv.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green