The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

"Extgi monumentuni aere perennius."

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for he has raised unto himself a monument more lasting
than • brass. (Cheers.) . I now proceed to Mr. Charles
Turner. (Cheers.) •I. supported 'him in 1852, and have
mach pleasure in supporting him again. (Cheers.) T
know him as an excellent chairman of the Dock Committee,
and a goOd Man of business, He was, elected in 1852 by
• 6,693 votes-7(sheers)—whilst Mr. Evart had only 4,910.
Has he done anything since 'to forfeit your good opinion.
(Cries of' "No, Po") Then send him back again to
parliament. (Cries of '" We will.") There certainly was an
implied pledge that yeti would. take the earliest -opportunity
of doing so: (A voice-7" And we wiil.doeo.") lam sorry
to find the usual licence of electioneering speakers has been:
exceeded on -this.acoesioa: An -esteemed friend of mine,.
whose name I ,shall not mention, says--'f Mr. Turner is,
parading his religious opinions," and asks, "whet hav,e
we to do with them ? we Want' his political opinions.",
I say we have everything to do with his religious opinions.:
Are we to take ariy Mari whose political creed suits• els,
without enquiring whether to he is a jew;or a Gentile?
Are we to take Baron Rothschild - without enquiring
whether he is a Jew ? The House •of Commons gives a
tone to the. country, and it is of. the ,utmost importance
we should know the religious.ooinions of those w:: send
there. (Cheers ) The only quarrel I have with Mr.
Turner is because he has caned his opponents Whigs,
itt hilst I called teem Radicals; and I. shall prove, before
I hat'e done, that Mr. Ewart's opinions are quite of the
Radical kind. • (Cheers.) I am myself Whiggisbly
inclinedeand if there bed been a candidate of that creed,
I might not, bap been
.here te-night. Another charge
against Mr. Turner is' that be does not support, the
charities of the town. Now, this is a:subject which must
be left to left to every man's con deuce, and I thin% like
alluring to, it, but as- it h.as been mentioned, I may say
that I have it on good authority that he is a liberal stip•
porter of all the charities. (Applause ). 'I ant grieved to.
find that the usual latitude of election speeches has been,
so much exceeded on this occasion, I shall now refer to,
Mr. Ewart, and in doing so shall not follow the example
Of some of his followers, but shall at once declare that I
believe him to be an, honourable man 'and a thorough
gentleman in every sense of the term. His public con-
duct is public property, and that is all I shall conitnena
upon. - (Hear, hear.) I have waded through several
documents with the view of getting ' something. like ' a
pregramme of his opinions. I read first a letter, signed
"T. Brocklebank, chairman," not very elegantly written
—(laughter.)—from which I could not mike out anything
beyond that Mr. Turner was ambitious, as if Me Ewart
was not also arrinitieue. (Cheers.) Then I read . two
addresses froM Mr. Ewart, one dated " Pall Mall," in
which lie speaks of nothing but the China question and
the Crimean Commissioners, as if these wet e his creed ;
the.second, dated "New Brighton," under the- influence
of the refreshing breezes of that place, was sup
plernental to the other, and rather more explicit.
(Hear, hear.) FrOM these documents and his speeches
- at the Amphitheatre and `ward meetings, I gather the
following as his political faith. lst. The liallot. Are
roe in favour of the present open way: f voting, or are
you for-the secret system ? lam opposed to Mr. Evart
on Cis point: : (Cheers.) lid. Education; but whether
secuar or religions is not clearly stated. He pins his
faith on his brother, who I fancy is for the former.
(Cheers.)
;Here again I. am at issue - with him, for I
hold that secular instruceion, without the check of
religious training, is dangerous.. It is like the German
tale of • Frankenstein, who conjured amonster before
him, which, he could not ally. ' Brd. :Reform. Mr.
Ewa'rt does 'not say whether he is for household or uni-
versal suffrage. -Probably his mind is not made- up, and
he will be *dragged' aloeg
;by.his, party.. (Cheers.) .1
have been endeatouring to get at his views as to what is
called " innnocent recreation on the- Sabbath," but I
can't•discover them exactly. I observe, however,.. that
Dr. Goss, the Catholic Bishop- of • Liverpool, tells his
people not to vote for the man who is 'not in 'favourof
this recreation. He almost tells them in words not to
vote for Turner, and I fancy it would have been a work
of supererogation to tell' them not to vote for Horsfall ;
therefore the inference is; they must vote for Ewart as
being the man most likely' to favour his views in that
respect. The Maynooth grant is not alluded to, but I
may safely say Mr. Ervart is in its favour. Now I quarrel
with Mr. Ewart because he is a thick and thin supporter
of Lord daelmerston, who I think is not entitled -to con-
fident:o. Toe country seems in it. kirid •of temporary
insanity with regard to. this man. I cannot account for
it. His sins of omission and corninissioo have been great.
Need I allude again to iris treatment-of the Crimean
coin inissiorters—m,n who, at e.it'doing their duty honestly
and faithfully; were left to pine under the.cold shade of
aristocracy? "(Cheer.;.) Now a word about the appoint-
meet of dignitaries of the Chu-ch, which h is given Lord
Palmerston a certain popularity, I, for one think his
appointments admirable ; but does-any one imagine he
cares two straws of what complexion the bishops are,
except as a matter of pen:Heal eepediency I Does
that -man, think you, care . what the hiShops
are who sanctioned the playing of bends in Kensington
Gardens on Sunday,. and only withdrew them when a
pressure came? Does that man, think you, care what the
bishops. are who,..when : the Scotch people asked him to
appoint adoy of fasting on account of the cholera, returned
them a -flippant answer, in 'which be almost ignored; the
existence of the great first cause? - • The fact is, the
country will not tolerate Tractarianism. We cannot go
hack to the mummeries of . the dark ages. The humen
mind must not be enthralled again, after-long centuries, of
emancipation. For what purpose has the Reformation
been achieved ? fur what purpose have-our confeesOrs lived
and died? far what purpose have the fires of Smithfield
blazed, -if in this nineteenthoentury we -are td go back to
tee monkish superstitions of the sixteenth. But the thing
is impossible. (Great applause-). I have:now, lem afraid,
exhosted your patience. (Wee of " No, no.") I- have
endeavoured to place before you the claims, as I consider
them, of the three candidates. If I have -niade-asuccessful
appeal to youe votei•will _make strenous efforts to return
Horsfall and Turner; if nnt,:you will throw them over:
board and
.support Mr. E wart., Itis a serious thing, this
eeerciae, of the franchise. Remember that the 17,000
elector! of Liverpool send two men to Parliament to
represent half I million of people. Our votes, therefore,.
must leave an impress on.the great councils of the nstioe,
Do not be carried away by clap-trlp cries. Do not believe'
because lkir. E eart's supporters tell you so, that all politica
virtue Is On their aide. D, not believe, because Mr. Ewatt's
aripperters tell you so, that civil sad religious freedom will
flourish, and 'hear fruit, and shy ot.out.ii, to fresh efflorescence
in their beetle, Whilst -it will wither. end- decay in ours.
Let us, above all, act and vote according to our conscience,
and in a. spirit of. bee and affection towards- the town
;With whose prosperity our own is 'blend up ; with whose
growth we have grown, and with whase: strength we have
strengthened ; in -a spirit of love for the land of our
birth, of which we. ere all so proud ; that land in
which, amidst the rO'''A anti' tempests of . an ungenial
climate, the genius of freedom has- reared her temple—
the land in which we have an open Bible, and in which -
we can sit undisturhed under the shade of " that tree
whose leaveaare • for the healing of the nations"—the
land, in shirt, which I hope will continue to be for long
centuries what for centuries past she has been—

" glorious, add-free,
First flower of the earth, first gem of the sea."
Mr. Clint resumed his seat amidst great applause.
Mr. Wiiltliaiv seconded the adoption of the resolution
in a speech of considerable length, in the course of which
he reviewed the cleims Mr. Horsfall and Mr. Turner had
upon the electors, and concluded by expressing it as his
opinion that they would be returned by a triumphant
majority.

Mr. Bold, after a few brief remarks, proposed a vote of

thanks to the chairman, which having been received
and carried by acclamation, the meeting separated, giving
three cheers for Messrs Horsfall and Turner.