text:  The _Record_ newspaper a religious journal ably and conscientiously conducted took part with the Secession and very energetically; for they denounced the noble duke's refusal of land as an act of "persecution;" and upon this principle--that in a county where his grace was pretty nearly the sole landed proprietor to refuse land (assuming that a fair price had been tendered for it) was in effect to show such intolerance as might easily tend to the suppression of truth