Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-27 00:00:00

JUDAS ISCARIOT AND THE CONSERVATIVES.

BROTHER ELECTORS OF LIME-STREET WARD,
PERMIT me to address a few more words to you
previous to the important trial which will take
place on Tuesday next. It may be that von will listen to the
voice of reason, or it may be that you will remain stolid and
indifferent as to your future welfare, and likewise of. that
great constitutional body you profess to belong to. • I can
assure you it was with pain and regret that I witnessed your
duplicity and treachery on the Ist of November, 1856, (you—
the forty-live I am alluding to) who voted for the Compton-
house Radical—one who professes to be a fellow-neighbour,
and a fellow-citizen, and who takes as his motto, "Do unto
others as you wish to be done by." Yet with impunity this
same man can embark into so many branches of business and
sell his goods (in many instances) under the market prices.
What the quality of those articles are, it is not for me to say.
I would ask you, fellow-ratepayers, what you think of any
Representative carrying on the trade of a linen draper, milli-
ner, boot and shoe maker, perfumer, stationer—and last, not
least, tea dealer. Is it fair? Is it just? Is it reasonable that
one man should monopolise the different trades in this manner,
to the great injury of those very fellow-tradesmen who returned
him as their Representative. It is without exception the coolest
piece of effrontery I ever met with on the part of any man, to ask
his constituents to return him a second time, after intruding
upon their different trades, to the loss of themselves and fami-
lies. What a beautiful thing consistency is, when we can meet
with it I Let me earnestly implore of you, for the sake of your-
selves and families, (who are dependent upon you,) to awake
from your slumbers, to shake off the effects of the narcotic
which has been administered to you in such large dosing
speeches, promises, pledges, and so forth. Believe no longer
in such hallucinations; but be resolved no longer t' allow a
man of James R. Jeffery's position to sell you again. He has
indeed sold you (but not in the same way as Judas Iscariot
was sold, who could not retrieve himself,) by the dodges of his
display on the Ist day of November. 1856. It is not too late
for you to repent of your egregious folly and your supineness.
You have another olden opportunity afforded you of counter-
actiag the baneful influence you disseminated three years ago
throughout Lime-street Ward, by not recording one single
vot% for the mob orator. If you do, you will introduce Papacy
into the length and breadth (not only of Lime-street Wird,
but) of Liverpool, and thereby be the means of eventually de-
stroying the fabric of our noble and high-valued Constitution.
Remember Lord Derby's advice to you, and take heed to his
saying. In conclusion, my fellow tradesmen, be steadfast,
unmoveable ; and consider that it was through the treachery
of forty. five of your own body that you returned the frothy
declaimer of Compton House. Let your energies be put in
motion, and you may depend upon it that Mr. Wi son will be
triumphantly returned, in the place of the interfering and
obnoxious Mr. Jeffery.
I am, Brother Electors,
Your obedient Servant,
THOMAS BANNER.
Loudon-road, Oat. 26, 1859.

latunitipal irettion

TO THE ELECTORS OF NORTH TOXTETII WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
ju HAVE much pleasure in acceding to the wish of the
Deputation presenting a Requisition from so many in-
ential members of your Ward, and beg to place my services
at your disposal.
Should it be your pleasure to elect me one of.your Represen-
tatives in the Town Council, on the Ist November, it will be
my study to merit your confidence by a diligent attention to
the onerous and responsible duties which wilt devolve upon me.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient
Servant, J. G. LIVINGSTON.
Mayfield, Wavertrce, 20th October, 1859. 302.1

TO THE MUNICIPAL ELECTORS OF SOUTH
TOXTETH WARD.

GENTLEMEN,
MY Term of Office, as oue of your Representatives
in the Town Council, will expire on the Ist November.
Having had the honour of being twice elected by you, I have
for the last six years zealously endeavoured to discharge the
duties of the trust jou committed to MC in a faithful'and con-
scient:ous manner, by a regular attendance at the different
committees on which I was placed, and in taking an active
part in their proceedings. lam led to believe that my past
conduct has received your approval, from the numerously and
influentially signed requisition I have • now received, soliciting
me to become for the third time a candidate to represent you.
'Under this impression, I cheerfuily comply with your wish;
and should you be pleased to confer on me the renewed honour
of re-electing, me, I can only promise that I shall give the same
diligent attention to the .discharge of my duties, and that I
shall be influenced alone by .a conscientious desire to act, as
regards all matters that may come before the Council, to the
best of my judgment, for the benefit of my constituents, and
the good of the Borough generally.
I am, GENTLEMEN,
Your most obedient Servant,
JAMES ROBERTSON.
Peel-street, Toxteth-park,
Oct. 20, 18.59.