Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

that profession of sympathy merely a pretence or
a momentary and factitiou§ excitement ? We do
not believe it. We do not believe that you met
together in crowds that day, merely to pay a
personal compliment, however highly deserved,—
to testify mere personal admiration for a worthy
neighbour, a distinguished noble, or a great ora-
tor, however suitable was the object. We lA-
lieve that it was not merely, and not chiefly, as
a Lancashire landlord, that we poured 'forth our
congratulations upon the head of our State-sit:lan-
guest, hut as the chief and representative of the
great. Conservative party.
Now, we said we, the leaders and the follow-
ing, were on the whole satisfied with each other,
—trustful, at all events, in each other. We, for
our parts,'were impressed with a sense of Lord
DERBY'S great and honourable services, in the
last crisis of the Constitution. We approved his
management pf political' complications; we deeply
sympathised with him—not on his account, but
for the cause's sake—in the governmental defeat
which very crooked tactics prepared, and which
no prudence and no virtue could avoid. And,
above all, we resolved, there and then, as one
man, to look forward, with steady gaze, to one
issue—to labour for one great hope,—thc return
of the faithful servant to his post of duty—the
natural ascendancy of those principles which
had been manoeuvred into the " cold shade."
We have SAID all this. Our words, and our
cheers,—our warm and sympathetic glances—our
smiles of pride and mutual shakings by the hand,
meant all this, and meant more where they
could not articulate. Now, to day there is some-
thing to DO. You who say, that a Municipal
Election is no stage which you can dignify or
exalt by steadfastness to political principle, have
no share in the enthusiasm of Saturday. You
whom the loud blast blown by your adversaries
in every corner of almost every Ward in the town,
is unable to rouse from your slumber, or awaken
to a true sense of the real character of this con-
test, have no share in the enthusiasm of Saturday.
You who withdraw or withhold your vote from
an honest and worthy Conservative because of
some personal pique or petty jealousy ; or of some
personal regard and private interest challenged
by his opponent, and the opponent of your
principles; have no share in the enthusiasm Of
Saturday. You who are moved to the r,ejection
'of useful though less assuming candidates who
sympathise with your principles, by the claims
of mere talkers and busy-bodies, the aim of
whose public life is to keep themselves con-
tinually before the public, or to seek a
cheap and questionable popularity by poking
their noses into every corner of the muni:
cipal system, and are nothing but Doctor Syn-
taxes on the perpetual hunt after small abuses
and irregularitiesranticipating, and thereby spoil-
inv., the mature and steady -labours of well-
informed and judicious reiormers,—you wno wil-
fully forget that these men are applying the
same temper of mind, the same principles of
violence and change, exerted in the spirit of the
same ultimate aspirations and designs, to munici-
pal affairs, as their prototypes to national,—you,
in short, who feel no interest in the maintenance
of that conservative ascendancy which has hither-
to in some degree moulded the character of our local
Parliament, have no share in the enthusiasm of
Saturday. Or if you had, it was the share of
men without heart, without purpose, without
manly convictions. It was the testimony of
frivolous, or pusillanimous, or dishonest men,
whose support is a degradation, or an incum-
brance, or a sham. It was the share of the weak
and unmanly; or the dissembler and hypocrite.
Let no one say : " I will just for this once,
vote for my particular friend, or my social neigh-
bour, or my client in trade, or my associate in
objects of public service or private amusement."
Though the " law" renders re-election necessary ;
previous possession is " nine tenths" of, at all
events the prestige, and the influence. If You
put a Radical in a Ward, ten to one—or at least
there are odds, in the most hopeful cases—that
you saddle it with him for election after election.
And, perhaps, confidence in his position leads him
to develop, more and more, the principles—per-
hais democratic, or anti-Church—whose moderate
expression or absence of obtrusiveness at first
mollified the abstract opposition to which you were
personally disinclined. And the danger, too, goes on
deepening and extending, that his principles may
reflect themselves on his constituency; that the
ignorant and the weak may be reduced under his
influence ; and that contests more important than
municipal ones, may be thus seriously affected.
If Conservatives, then, be manly, and believing,
and hopeful, let them go this day, and do their
duty. Let them not postpone their earnestness
and zeal, to what they call a great contest, where
they say great principles are at issue. The most
important of our duties are generally those
nearest us; obscure perhaps, inattractive, blow-
ing no trumpet, making no loud complaining in
the streets; possibly lying under our feet. Let
us this day, after the high enthusiasm .4 last
Saturday, stoop for this one and take it up. This
is the prelude to greater things. The good work
of Tuesday will at least show that the faith of
Saturday was not barren or alone.

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THE member for West Surrey, Mr. H. DRUM-
MOND, in his own quaint and eccentric style,
often says very true, as well as very good things.
In addressing the farmers, at Derby, of the West
Agricultural Association, upon proposing the
toast of the " Army and Navy," he told them not
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to call upon the Army and Navy to help them,
when fighting became necessary against an in-
member, "do you help the Army and Navy. "
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