The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-04 00:00:00

T)E TLiberpool FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1833. POSITION OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.—The London Standard of the 23th Dec. judiciously remarked that, if the Conservatives begin at once, and pursue their object steadily, they must, humanly speaking, unless revolution intervene, acquire a majority in the next House of Com mons. The present elections, unsatisfactory as they must be deemed, if estimated only by the numerical strength of Conservative candidates returned, yet if viewed upon a sounder, more farsighted, and more comprehensive prin ciple, appear in a very different 'light. We have to re collect, that the system of voting in this country, which allows each elector to give as many suffrages as there are members to be elected, is attended with this peculiar dis advantage : that the merest majority can command at will, the return of all the members, while a minority per haps, only just exceeded by them in numbers, remains wholly excluded and unrepresented. In a county, for instance, returning three members, all the three may be returned by a majority of which each person splits , his vote between the three, while a minority amounting to, perhaps, nine tenths of the majority is without a member. Of course nothing can be more unfair than the opera tion of such a system, in times of great excitement. But, in all ordinary times, where the electors are divided into two great sections, each returns one member, irrespec tively of any inconsiderable difference in their numerical force : because there is a sense of justice, in the minds of most men, sufficient to make them fully aware, unless in seasons when the passions are strongly stimulated, the coalitions to exclude a powerful minority from any share in the-representation are extremely unfair: where they have been adopted by Tory candidates, it has been on the principle of defence or retaliation. So great, at present, is the number of these large and wholly unrepresented minorities, that we fear this Par liament will be found to give, indeed, a very partial idea of the feelings of the people. Take, for instance, the case of West Gloucester.— It returns two Reformers. Therefore the Radical Press will say, it is fully and fairly represented. Such are the fictions—what are the facts ? That Lord R. Somerset was excluded from the second place by a majority of thirty-four, while twenty-six hundred and fifty-three persons who gave pluppers in his favour, remain wholly without an organ of their principles. in the House of Commons. The number of these cases of hardship is on the Tory side extremely great,—on that of the Whigs extremely small. There are Westmorland, North Essex, and one division of Cumberland, where the Whigs have suffered; on the other side, the cases are almost numberless. To speak Of counties only, we may 'mention both diviiions of Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Derby,.. Hants, Durham, Gloucester, Somerset, Staffordshire, one of Worcester shire, Cheshire, Kent, and Lancashire. We do not complain of this :—our adversaries have only . used their legal priVilege: But we advert to it, to prove that the defeats of ConServative Members are owing purely to temporary oircumstances, and that, when excitement subsides and the trade of agitation stagnates, Conservative principles -will, in the, natural order of things, resume their ascendancy. : . Is it doubted that of the landowners an immense majority . are Conservative, and that similar principles extend far among the middle, classes ? Hear the Globe of Dec. 28. . " man who knows any thing. Of England, can fail to knoW that what we may still call the . Tory party, embraces a very large number of the most opulent and intelligent of the middle, to say nothing of the higher classes." Hear the Morning Chronicle . of Dec. 29—a witness in thii case, as good'as a thousand : " A majority of the landholders, magistrates, and clergy, are Tories, in every county of England." By and bye, perhaps, these very journals will call the Tory party a contemptible faction, destitute alike of num bers, education, and respectability :—but let that pass. We have quoted Philip sobei, and pay little heed to Philip drunk. It is, therefore, incumbent upon the holders of Conser vative principles, carefully . to• remember that, though their cause labours under. the evil of representation most inadequate, whether estimated by their numbers, their wealth, or their respectability, yet they indubi tably hold in their hands the means and elements of permanent power. _ _ Why then are they now depressed ? Because, confi dent in their strength and lulled into tranquillity, by a long continuance of Ascendancy, they have neglected the use of those means which they possessed for :their defence and protection. • Union, combination, system, have been terms unknown among them. Activity and perseverance,—qualities sufficiently rare; the legal and fair influence of property, as a means of consolidating; political power, they have never 'duly considered ; dis gusted with the abuse of the power of the press, they have neglected its use. Unhappily for this country, paperi conducted upon the principle of the most shame less disregard to religion and to honesty, have been fostered into their present importance, by the unreflect ing patronage of the Tory gentry of this country. In addition to all this,jealousies,—the ordinary attendants of extreme prosperity,—insinuated themselves into their ranks, and defeat naturally followed upon the heels of dissention. • Disposed by their station, habits, and character, to peace, our men of property bear . much for the sake of peace,. and can only be roused into energetic action by a long series of pertinacious and violent attacks. But the time, we apprehend, is• now.fully come, when they must act, and act unanimously and energetically,—or -prepare to lay at the feet of an insolent and unprincipled faction ' their possessions and privileges, and not only these, but the wise laws and noble' institutions of their country, : And with them, the sobriety and stability of 'their national character which, moulded and fostered by those institutions, will inevitably decay without them, tend will be replaced by a morbid excitability of disposi. lien adverse alike to the acquisition of temporal pros -perity, and to the due pursuance .of the higher and more permanent purposes of our existence. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. lingly relinquish all claims to pre-eminence in the manu facture of slang. Consulting our own consciences upon the justice of the sentiments we express ; representing the feelings of those who, as we believe, are not the worst subjects nor the worst christians in this country ; and rewarded by an ample share of public favour and patronage,—we shall pursue a calm, and we trust not a wholly useless course, aiming at the promotion of true religion, the maintenance of our ancient institutions, e and the general welfare of all classes of the community : and not, as we hope, materially ruffled, even though the Liverpool Chronicle and its allies continue to pour upon us their pointless darts and their unscathing balls, much akin to those which Barou Munchausen heard trickling, like spent shot, among the branches over his head, on his 'approach to the far-famed city of Tippoo Saib. The writer in the Chronicle takes occasion of a mani fest error of the press to carp at the style of the Standard; and this, when the ink could scarcely have been dry with which he had penned a phrase which we entrust to the admiration of .our readers, declaring that England and France would " conquer the peace of Europe." After this, any man who may be diffident of his own grammati cal acquirements, will know where to apply with a cer tainty of being "perfectionated." We have looked—for once—painfully through the attack with which the Chronicle has been pleased to fa your us, to grasp, if possible, and extract from a mass of drivelling and abuse something like a palpable charge. We found ourselves accused of confidently predicting the return of Sir Howard Douglas and Sir Thomas Hesketh. In the first p%ce, we would say we were not far from the truth : both, we fully believe, would have been returned had they appeared three weeks earlier. In the second, are we to be the only persons to whom no allowance is to be made for the uncertainty of election proceedings ? To take' examples at_a venture :—Colonel Gardiner writes, on Dec. 15, in North Notts, " our final triumph is cer tain." On Dec. 26, the election closes, and he is at the bottom of the poll. Mr. Burnett wrote to the electors of Kincardinshire, in the Montrose paper, " I shall be your representative." But,. if our contemporary will look in the returns, he will find the name of General Arbuthnott, a Tory. To conclude : were there no equally triumphant anticipations of the return of Mr. Thornely in this town ? Whereas - he has had no return—except- to privacy and insignificance. One other tangible accusation has been made :—that we have praised the people ! We beseech the public to consider in what situation we stand. Our sentiments are read, by the radical jour nalists of this town, under a predetermination to condemn them. An 'universal sentence is pasigd against them — before trial. If. we praise the aristocracy, we are despots: if we praise the people,. we are hypocrites : if we endea vour to uphold religion, we are hypocrites : if we expose unblushing mockery of moral principle, we are revilers of private character. A sentiment may be good in itself, but if uttered by us, it is transubstantiated into absolute wickedness. The business of that party is not truth, but opposition ; they are not so much to establish their own sentiments, as to contradict ours. If we say " black," they must say " white :" if no longer able to do so, they must maintain, in the teeth of evidence, if necessary, that we mean the. contrary to what we say. One thing, in their minds, is essential to virtue : not to tell the truth, nor, to tell falsehood ; but, to differ with the conservatives; and not only to differ, but to scold them soundly. And what then ? We should have been grievously unfit for the task we have undertaken, if we had not laid our account with this, and more than this : albeit, to per form such a degrading office as that we have described, is a hard task for human nature, until it be wholly divested of its last remaining sentiments of bashfulness and honour. But we merely, mention this circumstance to acquit our selves of the charge of disrespect to our readers, or to reason, if we should decline entering into unprofitable and endless strifes of paltry criticism and vapid.declama tion, merely in order to erect a defence for ourselves against attacks notable only for their acrimony and their impotence. We have praised the people—but not the rabble. We have drawn a distinction between the soberminded mass —and that inflamed and infuriated sect of the people of England, who,!being congregated in large towns, unhap pily become subject to . the arts of ambitious demagogues and scribes in newspapers, whose object is, as every sen sible man knows, not to enlighten the people, not to amend the people, not to detect falshood nor investigate truth, but simply and singly, TO EXTEND THE SALE OF THEIR PAPERS, and who will sacrifice truth or bepraise it, precisely as they imagine will be most conducive to the attainment of this, their cardinal and capital object : not indeed that this melancholy statement applies alike to all, even of the radical prints. We do not admire the Mercury to excess, but could not conscientiously apply this denunciation to its case, as we do to others. We distinguish between the people and the rabble, as we do between the Church-loving and the Church-hating Dissenters : the mistake and the misfortune is, not that they are now distinguished, but that they should ever have been confounded. It may suit the speculation of the Chronicle, to keep them confounded, and to represent us as keeping them confounded : but, for our parts, we are convinced, and this paper, as we hope, will prove our conviction, that the stand now to be made against the deadly foes of our country and its institutions, must be made on broader than mere party grounds, on higher than mere party principles. 'They cannot live through the hurricane, which already rocks the ancient thrones of the world to their bases, and -threatens 'to break up from its founda tions the fabric of human society. We must adopt in heart, as well as in word, the cause of the people, against the deriders and destroyers of the people—the cause of union against disorganisation—the cause of peace and confidenCe against revolutionary excitement—the cause of true religion against infidelity and its satellites, open or concealed. If our advocacy be false or fickle, it wil speedily be detected and exposed : if it be humble and sincere and constant, the blessing of England's God will lead it onwards to final victory. THE LIVERPOOL PRESS. I' tl TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STrINDARD. SlR,—The Spaniards have a proverbial saying, that " the person who injur es y ou never f orgives you," and'however sin gular it may appear upon the first r e adi ng , a little reflection will shew, that it is reconcileable with the comman practice of those who can wantonly injure or wound the feelings of others; because such men being devoid of generous sentiments, con clude, that those whom they thus injure, must entertain and act upon the same malignant spirit which actuates themselves. Upon this ground alone can 1 account for the unabating, nay, rattier increasing, malignity of part of the Liverpool Press, against those whom they choose to select as victims of their as perity and vituperation. There is, however, a faint ray of hope, that in one instance, something like a correction of this un happy propensity may take place, and this hope arises from the pain and anxiety evidently suffered by a certain Editor, while he is writhingly end ea v our i ng to extr i cate hi mself from tilt, dilemma in which he is placed, by having published an un authorised statement of a conversation, (for aught we know, a private one,) which he alleges took place between him and a gentleman, who denies the truth of that statement. If the sufferings of this editor hav e th e e ff ec t h ope d f or, an d cause him t o be more cautious, in futur e , h ow h e pu bli s h e s t statements arising from incidents related to him in casual and. incautious conversation, (the publication o f w hi c h th e re l a t o r would, no doubt, if as k e d for his . consent, instantly refuse,), particularly when such statements deeply affect the feelings; and injure the characters, of honourable and innocent persons-:•' if, I say, his sufferings have this effect, and induce him to con duct his journal upon that generally unerring and respectable principle, of avoiding to give that offence, or to do that injurj to others, whi c h h e wou ld energetically deprecate if offered to himself, it will effect a reform infinitely more valuable to him' than that sweeping measure of spoliation and robbery which.: he labours, in his way, to persuade the unthinking multitude , • must follow the measures he so recklessly advocates. But whether this effect be produced or not, one good is ce•X' • tain to result from the publication, namely, an extension o f the conservative principle, which every respectable man must now see the necessity of acting upon, by avoiding any communica tion with those who make it their business to cater for the worst purposes, and who do not hesitate to publish any incident, however trivial, in utter recklessness of th e .consequences to others, so a s it. tends to promote their main object, namely..,' that of endeavouring, by defamation or otherwise; to brim N . down to their own lever those•who stand upon an eminence 0 1 ii well-earned reputation and respectability, which they will never . k in attain while they pursue their vicious course. The Journal too, "par nobile patrum," not on ly emu lates t similar notoriety, but claims for the Liverpool Press, meaning, test no doubt, that portion which comprises itself and its colleague, , it,, i that it is "second only in character to that of - the Metropolis.' '!iq , I , This is assumed modesty; it being evident, that for envy, hatred, ~'-', malice, and all uncharitableness, it is second in character to - I ;L ei none in or out of the Metropolis. I am, Sir, your's, &c. CONSERVATUS. " ksin , eri 'ec t I • 0 ' n r ,.. kir l teri . tied I, %al n eo tth a !Nes i 11)46 LONDON LATEST NEWS. (From our Correspondent.) LONDON, Wednesday Evening, half-past 7 o'clock. The Consol Market has exhibited some considerable degred of buoyancy this morning, and, at the close of business, the quotation for the Account was 86g, sellers. Our heavy stocl- 4 are also better : 3 per Cents. Reduced are 851; 31 per Cents. , 93a ; and 4 per Cents., Mi. India Bonds left olf at 22 to 18 premium. _ . - Our various Foreign Bonds carried a tendency upward 9; Russian Bonds left off at 100 i ; Spanish Bonds closed at 1611 and Belgian at 76, after being as high as 76-1. The closirig price of Dutch Stock was 424, ex. dividend. We find, by the Paris letters, this afternoon, that the Greek Loan there has been taken at 96. _ _ The letters from Bologna announce the arrival there of the young King Otho on his way to Greece. He was first to pro' ceed to Naples, and then embark f o r his new ki ng dom. 'lb ° French troops would remain in garrison, at Napoli, until Oa arrival of the Bavarian tr o op s , wh e n they would proceed Ancona. At a public meeting, held at Lloyd's, to-day, - atid very / mine' rously attended, the amended mot i on o f Mr., Carruthers, thal one hundred guineas should be given to the arctic expeditiou in search of Captain Ross was confirmed. Quebec papers to the 2nd of December have been received' The ice is forming fast, and it was more than probable that the vessels then in port would winter there. The thermometer, 01 an exposed situation was nearly down to zero. We have had a Malta mail, to-day, with dates to the end, o f December. They contain a bulletin of th e p rogress of *the Egyptian army in Syria, which we subjoin. SYRIA. We have received accounts from Syria, with the official letin, of the army of Ibrahim Pacha "22nd Djemazel-ewel, 1248, (16th Oct., 1832.) f " At day-break we l e f t B ouzetn i , prece d e d b y t h e cavalryr!,.° the Delis, and followed by that of Ahmed Isey,'AlehneridJ e Gade, and th e B e d ou i n cava l ry, who were in' the rear. ' C he t defile we had to pass is very narrow; we made a short halt Takhta Kupru. During this interval five or' six men, wh ° were on the look out, saw us, and ha s t e n e d t o gi ve i nte lli g en ce of us. The enemy had fortified Tehefti Khan on all sid es Having left a sufficient number of troops at Tallita and upon other exposed points, we advanced in the above °a der upon the enemy in the defile. More than a thouse i horsemen came down into the' valley, and postek ov:' 0 thems before us • five hundred more were ranged with th e inf a ntry', 1 , order of battle, above Tehefte Khan. Another corps took 111 3 . 4 position along the opposite mountains. After oirserAing, 1 ; 0 half an hour, the movements of the enemy, we put ourselves a position to repulse him. The affair began with a fire'of ketry, during which the enemies'ehiefs, Sadik Pacha, a nd 3' 13 ' 0 mendji Oglou Habib Bey, passed ; sword in hand, thr o ugh ranks of the infantry posted round the entrenchm en ts, end vouring to preserve order. Ten minutes af t erward s the t o Tchoukador Ibrahim Aga at the head'of his infantry, who Yf v .. e , upon the left of our corps of infantry, marched upon the C.,,y1 my's entr enc h men t s , f oi l owe d by a detac h ment. of cavalry, .", e , Seiko. Bey advanced from the centre with his Bedouin 00 ( " 03 men upon the tent of Alish Paella. Our Delis joined Ibr 3 h Aga. The shock was so great, that the enemy found liitus obliged to abandon his entrenchments. Sadak'l'acha and Ile' bib ktey were the first to take flight. The loss of the enemy in th e com b at was 500 men , of who rl 200 were killed and the remaind er ma d e pr i soners. The Pacha was pursued from Tchifti Khan to the distance of tweive leagues. Other fugitives carried to the. Pacha.a.t Oolon iii b" lak, the news of their defeat, who having under their ordo . ' more than 1,000 cavalry, considered themselves ea.led upon i i attack us. Our Bedouins and the other cavalry met them. 111 the mean time, Selim Bey and Ibrahim Aga came up with body of horsemen, and all charging the enemy at once, put biw o to a complete rout. Having followed up their retreat for I% hour and a half, our soldiers returned to Oolou Kishlak just % sunset, and, accordin g t o th e or d ers o f th e G enera l-i n - c hief after a day's rest at Oolou Kishlak we marched forward td gle (Heraclea). On the march Selim Bey received letters congratulation from the Mufti, the principal inhabitant, ar l o the people. The General-in-chief had determined to stoP. o Aleppo, and wait the decision of the Sublime Porte to put o end to the present state of things. The enemy were far fr' 4‘e acting in the same manner, at one ti me a pp e a r i ng in the &w a g of Gulak, at another concentrating his troops at - Antab, or,, he Oolou Kishlak, and spreading everywhere false reports. 1 .0 3 inhabitants of these countries, tired of the vexati o n s to wh i e they were subject, begged continually the assistance of . General-in-chief : these supplications were signed by the m,;l hers of the religious bodies, by the magistrates, and prinolci, people in each town. Adana in particular called loudly for a e l if us inhabitants fearing that he could not comply with wishes in person, besought him to send in his stead His 1 1 ,10 , ness Abbas Pasha. Urged by so many entreaties and beinq formed of everything that passed around him, the Genera _. 4 chief found himself obliged to go as far as Adana. The 01 0 7 persevering in his sinister views. fortified the defile of G 11 , 1 .. 3 .% and assembled his forces at Oolou Kishlak. The Genera , ,, l 4, chief sent a detachment to take possession or the defile, s :: e d to avoid giving cause for the prolongation of the war, orcle f be it to be guarded by some sel hers of the tribe of Adana. enemy, however, still continued to annoy us. He had ford, Tchifti Khan, and was preparing, also, to fortify Oolou lak, with the intention of organizing a new army. One of t i w f Beys of the province of Itchil, Aclimed Bey, irt ;Mussed, P re , been assassinated in his house, by the enemy's troops. Wh i e ic e ver they went despair was at its height. Repeated sulgb s tions were made to His Highness, the General-in-chief, [l v o , inhabitants of the province, who entreated him to deliver ti e d from these oppressors. The re-estabiishment of peace and tied order in their unfortunate countries, and, the frustration ulOf plans of the enemy, have been the object of the expeui i) Oolou Kishlak." Ltre R root ;—Printed on Tuesdays and Fridays, in Union 8u1,, e , John Street, and Published at No. 7, Hi ,, h-street, Exch.o*ote l SAMUEL FRANCEY:3, Stationer, of No. 7, A nson - s t ree t. ,„. Advertis.:ments are also received in London by t ; lk Co., Warwick-square, Newgate-street; and Mr. Beau Fleet-street. 6 rh 1 1 lent ' 7 ,7_ IV i4l:, Alp AN, 11 , va Shat , . k . B. o ven. A Be, tlrsi SLAVERY.—The truth must be spoken, let it offend whom it may. " We are told in this town, and it is gene rally maintained throughout the country, that the Dis senters and their Ministers have taken prominent part in the elections, upon principles strictly Christian, in order to relieve this country from the opprobrium which the existence of Slavery brings on the name of our holy religion. Every one who makes it his business to study human nature, in his intercourse with men, will be prepared to expect, when pretexts of this kind are taken up whole sale by large bodies of persons, every degree of know ledge and ignorance, of honesty and dishonesty, in the professions they hold forth. There are, we doubt not, many cases of most sincere and singleminded persons, who have voted for Radical Candidates on the ground of a genuine hatred to slavery, and who have not only professed this as their grand and leading motive, but have felt it too. But, if we are required to test the general wisdom and sincerity of those who have taken up the cry for imme diate abolition, it is obvious that we must, to this end, inquire, whether there was any place in which a Radical Candidate was friendly to the continuance of Slavery—' and if so, whether he was or was not largely supported by the Dissenters ? Look to Middlesex ! Mr. Hume is, avowedly, what is termed a friend of the West Indians, and he is considered as such by the West Indians themselves. We omit the fact, that his conduct on religious questions in Parlia ment, has given the greatest offence to rightminded per sons,—and we look only to this one opinion, which, in the geneiality of cases, has been represented by some sections of the Dissenters, as the paramount objection to voting for a candidate supposed to hold it. Well : Mr. Hume is opposed by Lord Henley—a man desirous of the abolition of slavery, and proposjng to go farther on this question than the Government themselves. What is the issue ? Of course, as this is the determining question, these portions of the Dissenters support Lord Henley against Mr. Hume ? No such thing : Lord Hen ley is driven out of the field, and dare not come to a poll. The election comes on and, by the agency of the Dissen ters, Mr. Hume is returned to Parliament, at the head of the poll. Is then Slavery the cause, or is it, in many cases, only the pretext of the course which has been pursued ? Apply the test:—take the case of the Radical Antiabolitionists : —look to the Middlesex Election. Avowedly hostile to immediate abolition,—not especially zealous for the moral elevation of the Negro by Christian instruction,—and condemned by name, in the advertisements of the Agency Antislavery Committee,—Mr. Hume is returned to Par liament for Middlesex, where the Dissenters are ex tremely strong, at the head of the poll. We are justified in calling upon many singleminded persons among the Dissenters to observe, how interested parties lead them by the nose. PORTARLINGTON ELECTION.—We perceive a long article in the Liverpool Journal of Saturday last, in which we find much that was not needed, and miss just one thing which was needed—that is, an apology. The facts are these. The Journal concentrated , the substance of a violent artiele in the Dublin Morning Register, and made it its own; by stating it as if on its own authority. Mr. Grant promptly contradicted the falsehoods which the Journal had been kind enough to take upon itself. The Journal replies, not with an apology, which every gentleman would have thought himself bound to make, as a matter of course, after publishing an abusive statement without previous inquiry as to its truth; but with a modest declaration, that .‘ they Might complain that Mr. Grant did not choose to reply So the charge in the Dublin paper, rather than to the brief statement in the Journal." What had Mr. Grant to do with the Dublin paper ? He looked to the mischief nearest home. Doubtless it would have been a good joke for the Journal, if instead of exposing its wanton publication (according to its own confession,) of invective, without evidence or in quiry, he had gone to seek a foe across the channel. He knew better. No, no, let the Dublin folks look after the Dublin slanderers ; we will take care of our own. Mr. T. Gladstone was returned for Portarlington' against the O'Connell, the. Government, the Corpora tion, and the Aristocratical interest, without bribery, and in the teeth of intimidation, through the influence of respectable and independent persons connected with the place, who, while they were desirous of procuring repa ration for some presunied loCal grievances, likewise wished to send to Parliament a man of moderate opinions, endowed with faithfulness and ability to defend them. THE LIVERPOOL CHRONICLE.—We remember that, at the period when—happy moment for the interests of hu manity !—the Albion newspaper commenced its career, its Editor forthwith commenced a series of conflicts with the Editor of the Mercury. Hard blows were given; but, happily, there were heads yet harder to receive them. Each did his best to belabour the other ; but the sculls of the antagonists were too dense for fracture, and the public, aware of their invulnerable character, looked quietly on with a shrug or a titter, even as a parcel of idlers behold, with little emotion, the reciprocating thumps of Punch and Judy. More serious matters are now in agitation, and we have no time for child's play. To the criticisms of friends desirous to amend our faults, we shall ever lend a grate ful attention; and from those of foes not void of under standing, we shall hope to derive some benefit. But we must beg to stand excused, in the eyes of our friends and readers, if we ordinarily refrain from taking notice of attacks upon us, such as we have seen in the Liverpool Chronicle of Saturday last, and such as, for aught we know 'to' the: contrary, may have adorned its columns every week since the Standard first appeared. When we are forced into such collisions, we• shall speak in in telligible, though we trust not ungentlemanly language; but our object is not to waste our readers' time and our own columns in 'petty and ignoble warfare, for we wil-