Trial of Alexander M'Leod for the Murder of Amos Durfee: And As an Accomplice in the Burning of the Steamer Caroline, in the Niagara River, During the Canadian Rebellion in 1837-8 (Classic Reprint)
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Alexander McLeod was an American clergyman, author, and editor.
Background
Alexander McLeod was the son of Rev. Neil McLeod, pastor of two Scottish Established Church parishes on Mull island of the Hebrides, on which isle Alexander was born. Dr. Samuel Johnson refers to the "elegance of conversation, and strength of judgment" of the elder McLeod, by whom the lexicographer was entertained when he visited Mull. The father having died when Alexander was five years old, care of the boy fell to the mother, Margaret McLeod, daughter of Rev. Archibald McLean, McLeod's predecessor in the parishes. His mother died when he was about fifteen.
Education
Before he was seven Alexander had mastered his Latin Grammar and had determined to enter the ministry. In 1792, he emigrated to the United States and for a time taught Greek at Schenectady, New York. He entered Union College in 1796, and was graduated with high honor two years later.
Career
During his first year in the United States, through the influence of Rev. James McKinney, who had arrived from Ireland in 1793, McLeod had united with the Reformed Presbyterian Church. After theological studies under McKinney, he was licensed to preach in 1799. The following year, he was called to be pastor at Coldenham, near Newburgh, New York, and also of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church, New York City. When he objected to the Coldenham call because among its signers were several slave-owners, the presbytery formally forbade communicant membership to slave-holders. A revised call was accepted, but the New York parish grew so rapidly that the young man soon gave all his time to it, and he remained connected with it until his death. McLeod entered the controversy with the Episcopal Church regarding validity of presbyterial ordination of ministers when, in 1806, he published his Ecclesiastical Catechism. In 1814, his Lectures upon the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation appeared; and in 1816, The Life and Power of True Godliness, which like his Catechism was well received in both America and Great Britain. Among his other publications was a sermon in opposition to slavery, Negro Slavery Unjustifiable (1802), which pointed toward his active aid, some years afterwards, in organizing the American Colonization Society. His Scriptural View of the Character, Causes and Ends of the Present War (1815) accorded with his vigorous defense of the government's war policy. When his synod founded the Christian Expositor, a monthly, McLeod became its editor, continuing as such nearly two years. He frequently contributed to the Christian Magazine, edited by John M. Mason and John B. Romeyn. He was a member of the New York City Historical Society, and helped organize the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews and also the New York Society for Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Having been in poor health for a long time, he died of heart disease in his fifty-ninth year.
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Membership
a member of the New York City Historical Society
Personality
McLeod was a fearless defender of human liberty, whether individual, civic, or religious. Naturally impetuous, he disciplined himself to restraint and was dignified and urbane in manner. In the pulpit, however, he ordinarily followed his calm and reasoned exposition with an application the eloquence of which was vehement, impassioned, and unconfined. One of his distinguished contemporaries characterized his preaching as that of "a mountain torrent, full of foam, but sending off pure water into a thousand pools. "
Connections
In 1805, McLeod married Maria Anne, daughter of John Agnew.